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Alumnus leads the Ho-Chunk Nation
There is no "typical day" for the man who leads a nation.
Jon Greendeer, '04, Stevens Point, the president of Wisconsin's Ho-Chunk Nation, serves 7,250 tribal members and more than 3,300 Nation employees (about 70 percent of whom are not Ho-Chunk), but also feels a responsibility to the general public served by Ho-Chunk businesses.
"Ours is politics like nowhere else," he said.
So Greendeer takes to the road quite a bit, driving from his home in Point to the Ho-Chunk headquarters in Black River Falls, to Madison to work with leaders in state government, to the various communities across the state where members of the Nation live or even to Washington D.C. to work with the federal government.
Elected on June 7, Greendeer took the oath of office on July 6 in Black River Falls. He was presented with an eagle feather by a Ho-Chunk veteran after taking the oath, representing his protection as he leads the executive branch of the Nation.
His duties also include working closely with the Nation's other units of government, the Legislative branch which appoints among itself the Nation's vice president, Greg Blackdeer, '04, Black River Falls.
Other branches include the General Council, a group made of all voting members over the age of 18, and the Judiciary, as well as directing 11 executive departments, such as Housing, Education, Health, Heritage Preservation, Business and Social Services.
"I'm usually the last to leave the office," he said. But he would not have it any other way, he added. "To say my work is a privilege is an understatement. I'd do anything for the Ho-Chunk people."
An enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation with additional Oneida heritage, Greendeer previously served the Ho-Chunk Nation for three years as the Executive Administrative Officer, the essential "right hand" of former President George Lewis who asked him to join his staff shortly after Greendeer graduated from Point.
So while he's served as an administrator before, this role is very different. "It's actually about the responsibility. When things go wrong, it's your call to duty to take care of it."
Greendeer considers himself a hands-on, blue collar guy. He would like to take the unique structure of the Nation and bring the government into the laps of the people, but he won't do anything that gives the sense of being progressive at the expense of their culture.
"My first priority is to preserve the Ho-Chunk way of life as best as we can," he said. "To be a strong leader I have to be compassionate but not be afraid to step up and make tough decisions. I have to create solutions and be a better person. The university gave me the confidence and understanding of how to implement change."
Greendeer's journey to Point was not a straight one. Denied admission, he decided he would not give up but rather begin his college career at UW-Marathon County, where he excelled as Student Association vice president and also started a Native American student organization. After earning his Associate's Degree there, he was able to transfer to UW-Stevens Point and finally reached his goal of becoming a Pointer.
Intending at first to study natural resources, Greendeer instead developed an affinity to political science and was soon deeply involved in the Student Government Association and the University Council.
"The whole Department of Political Science is amazing," he said. "You could not pick a better one. The professors are as much students of their discipline as the people they teach. That's an incredible quality—to learn from your students. It made me feel like a peer and it nurtured my desire for a career in political science."
Despite his rocky start, Greendeer is very proud to be a Pointer, and even his six-year-old daughter, Rio, knows when they drive by the campus "there's Daddy's school." He has served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors since 2008 and his family, which includes his wife, Christine and eldest daughter Brittany, returns to campus often for games, parades and other activities.
The Ho-Chunk Nation also values education, he said, as it is the only tribe that he is aware of that requires their representatives to have four year degrees. Given the expectations of the academic capital, Greendeer says, the Nation must stimulate scholastic growth. He is connecting with educators and integrating college courses at schools with large percentages of Ho-Chunk students and bringing them to UWSP, acting as a role model himself by attending these visits with them.
There are several UWSP alumni working in the Ho-Chunk offices, he said, due to its location, reputation and majors such as natural resources, anthropology and sociology, which are of special interest to the Ho-Chunk Nation.
"The university does prepare people for leadership, if they so choose to want it," he said. "UWSP creates ways for people to make decisions. In my position, I have to be able to handle the volatility of tribal politics. I have the confidence to know that I may not have the answer but coming from UWSP, I know how to find it."
"My grandmother said it best when I was deciding to run," said Greendeer. "She asked me, 'Do you know how lucky you are?' referring to my education. Then she said, 'You tell me who would be better than to run the Nation than my grandson?' So it's good to have that education behind you. There's a whole world of experience beyond that classroom."


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1737 - 1809
Historical Period:
The 18th Century
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a vigorous defender of and participant in both the American and French Revolutions. His most famous work is Common Sense (1776) which was an early call for the independence of the American colonies from Britain. His other well known work is The Rights of Man (1791) which was a reply to Burke's critique of the French Revolution.

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"Maybe you're not supposed to manage all this. Maybe, instead, you're supposed to experience it. Walk through it. Do the best you can."
To be honest, what drew me to this Christian memoir was the cover art…I loved the upside down-ness of the idyllic pastoral scene which seemed to speak of what the title was already hinting at…making peace with an unexpected and imperfect life. With real vulnerability and honest fear, Cushatt talks about her life which has included its fair share of messiness: divorce, remarriage, blended family, fostering children, and recurring cancer. What seemed to add insult to injury was Cushatt's cancer–she is a public speaker and she had to part with her tongue. Doesn't seem fair at all! Of course life isn't fair, and this memoir is hopeful and inspirational about how to find strength and grace in even the worst moments. Sometimes life's greatest beauty shows up in life's greatest chaos. She doesn't have all the answers, but her grappling with the questions is reassuring and real.
This trailer for her next book I Am gives a good introduction of the author.


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|Oracle® Database Platform Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1) for Windows
Part Number B10113-02
|View PDF
This appendix describes how to configure your system to store datafiles for a tablespace on raw partitions.
This appendix contains these topics:
Creating a Tablespace in a Raw Partition
Note:Oracle Real Application Clusters require additional configuration tools. See Oracle Real Application Clusters Installation and Configuration Guide for information on creating logical partitions and assigning symbolic links. Do not use this appendix to create partitions for Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Datafiles for tablespaces can be stored on a file system or on raw partitions. A raw partition is a portion of a physical disk that is accessed at the lowest possible level. Input/output (I/O) to a raw partition offers approximately a 5% to 10% performance improvement over I/O to a partition with a file system on it.
To create a raw partition, you must first generate an extended partition and a logical partition. An extended partition points to raw space on the disk that can be assigned multiple logical partitions for database files. An extended partition also avoids the four-partition limit by letting you define large numbers of logical partitions to accommodate applications using the Oracle Database server. Logical partitions can then be given symbolic link names to free up drive letters.
A physical disk represents the entire disk and points to the following:
Symbolic link name
x is automatically defined by Windows for every hard disk in the computer. For example, a computer with three hard disks will have the following symbolic links:
\\.\PhysicalDrive0 \\.\PhysicalDrive1 \\.\PhysicalDrive2
Internally, these names expand to the following:
\\.\PhysicalDrive0 =\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 \\.\PhysicalDrive1 =\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 \\.\PhysicalDrive2 =\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0
Partition0 is special, because it represents the entire physical disk regardless of any partitioning scheme on that disk. Windows writes a signature on the first block of all disks it recognizes. To avoid overwriting that block, Oracle Database skips the first block of a physical raw partition that is used for an Oracle Database datafile.
Note:Although you can use physical disks, Oracle recommends that you use logical partitions.
Logical partitions point to drives other than
\Partition0. They are initially assigned names with drive letters (
drive_letter:) and typically re-assigned symbolic link names (
symbolic link name). For example,
\\.\D: may be assigned a symbolic link name of
\\.\ACCOUNTING_1. Regardless of whether a drive letter or symbolic link name is used, logical partitions are defined to represent a specific partition in a disk rather than the entire disk. Internally, these names can expand to:
\\.\D:= \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1 \\.\ACCOUNTING_1= \Device\Harddisk3\Partition2
Note:Oracle Database does not skip the first block of a logical raw partition used for an Oracle Database datafile.
Consider the following when deciding which raw partition to use:
Physical disks are automatically defined by Windows to represent the entire disk, and should never be defined by the user.
Logical partitions must be defined by the user to represent a specific partition in a disk. These partitions should be logical partitions or drives contained in an extended partition. They should never be defined as
Using an entire disk (
Partition0) for an Oracle Database datafile and using a partition that occupies the entire disk for an Oracle Database datafile are not the same thing. Even when a partition occupies the entire disk, there is still a small space on the disk that is not part of the partition.
If you are using an entire disk for an Oracle Database datafile (
Partition0), then use the pre-defined physical raw names that Windows provides.
If you are using a specific partition and it occupies the entire disk, then use a logical partition.
If you are using a specific partition created with Windows disk-management tools, then define and use a symbolic link name rather than a logical partition number (even if it occupies the entire disk).
Note:For both physical and logical raw conventions, use OCOPY to transfer the contents of a raw partition to a standard file system for backup purposes.
You can create logical partitions, but define physical disk convention names for them. For example:
\\.\PhysicalDriveACCOUNTING_1 = \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1 \\.\PhysicalDriveACCOUNTING_2 = \Device\Harddisk3\Partition1
Oracle Database then handles datafiles using the physical disk convention even though it really is a logical partition. This will not cause any data corruption or loss as long as you continue to use physical disk naming conventions. Oracle recommends that you convert to the logical partition at your earliest convenience.
You can also create logical names representing
Partition0, but this is definitely not recommended. For example:
\\.\ACCOUNTING_1 = \Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
This poses severe problems, because Disk Management typically writes a signature into the first block of every disk, and consequently may overwrite a portion of the datafile header. It can also cause data loss. Never use
Partition0 with the logical partition convention.
Physical and logical partition conventions are not compatible with one another because of the extra block that is skipped for physical raw conventions. This also means you cannot simply use OCOPY to copy from a physical disk to a logical partition, because contents of these partitions are incompatible.
To convert from a physical convention to a logical convention, you must:
Perform a full database export to a (local) file system.
Create logical partitions and define logical names for these partitions.
Recreate the database by using the new logical partitions.
Perform the full database import to the newly-created database.
If your database installation uses physical disk conventions with logical partitions, Oracle recommends converting to the logical partition conventions at your earliest convenience, using the preceding steps.
See Also:Your operating system documentation for information on creating extended and logical partitions.
To create a tablespace using a datafile located in a raw partition:
Start SQL*Plus:
C:\> sqlplus
Connect to the Oracle Database repository database:
Enter user-name: SYSTEM/password
password for user account SYSTEM is
MANAGER by default. If you have changed this password, substitute the correct password for
Create the tablespace:
SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE tablespace DATAFILE '\\.\datafile' SIZE xm;
tablespace is the tablespace name
'\\.\' is the drive letter or symbolic link name assigned to the raw partition
x is the tablespace size in megabytes (Twenty megabytes is a good starting place.)
For example, to create a tablespace named
accounting_1 that was assigned a symbolic link name of
accounting_1, enter the following:
SQL> CREATE TABLESPACE accounting_1 DATAFILE '\\.\accounting_1' SIZE 502M;
Note:If you are creating a database with the
SQL script, modify datafiles that are stored on raw partitions with a naming convention of
\\.\drive_letter: or
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Low Class Wysinger
In the meantime, Al demonstrated just how far he's gone down the kool-aid highway by taking a very public swipe at Gene Williams after McHighStress got called away for an important phone call:
- McCarthy will be admitted to Jackson park soon, even Chief Treacy knew he was losing it. Funny how just when it was getting even crazier Mcwhackjob got a message on his blackberry and had to leave.
But good ole Al maintained the madness by telling gene Williams that his head was on the "chopping block" over this time due issue. There is some feud between the two of them but Al needs to be a man and a good boss and handle that shit in private. Degrading a subordinate in front of others never accomplishes anything. I understand that's the way they do it in new york, but this isn't new York you group of morons.
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Bahrain to celebrate World Maritime Day 2010
Bahrain's General Organisation of Sea Ports (GOP) has announced a strategic initiative to boost the Kingdom's standing in the global maritime landscape.
In support of World Maritime Day, the international celebration of the maritime industry, GOP will host the first annual Bahrain Maritime Festival on September 20-24, 2010.
Under the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)'s 2010 theme of the 'Year of the Seafarer', this year's launch event will include activities specifically geared to past, current and future generations of Bahraini sea-goers.
The United Nations (UN), via the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), initiated World Maritime Day to commemorate the international maritime industry's contribution towards the global economy, specifically in the shipping and logistics sectors.
Each year, WMD is held under a different theme. This year's theme, 'The Year of the Seafarer' aims to spread greater awareness of the maritime industry and focus attention on the importance of shipping safety, maritime security and the marine environment, paying tribute to the 1.5 million seafarers all over the globe for their unique contribution to society and in recognition of the risks they shoulder in the execution of their duties in an often hostile environment.
"We are proud to announce our plans for the launch of the GOP's first maritime-themed festival to mark World Maritime Day 2010 and join the global initiative celebrating the 'Year of the Seafarer'. Our aspiration is to hold BMF annually, each year customising the programme to fit the IMO's chosen theme for that year. While this year we have developed the activity line-up to target seafarers, we hope to build upon the event in the future and engage as broad an audience as possible," said Shaikh Daij bin Salman Al Khalifa, chairman of GOP.
"One of our key strategic objectives as laid out in our five-year plan is to position Bahrain as a global maritime centre, and BMF is an embodiment of an initiative which will aim to achieve this. Our ongoing commitment and dedication to being an active supporter of the maritime industry on an international level have helped us take a proactive approach to planning new initiatives and activities locally that will help boost out global standings," he added.
BMF 2010 will consist of four main activities spanning the week. These activities have been designed to generate greater awareness of Bahrain's growing maritime industry among students, business executives and the general public, all of whom can rightly take pride in the Kingdom's achievements and developments in the shipping and logistics industry.
The activities will include the 'Year of the Seafarer' Awards ceremony which will be held under the patronage of Shaikh Daij. Long-serving Bahraini seafarers who have served for twenty years and above in the maritime industry will be honoured and presented with an award during a dedicated reception. A public campaign has been launched to call for nominations with the intention to honour all eligible Bahraini seafarers, whether current or retired.
Another unique aspect of this initiative will be the "Careers in Maritime" drive, complementing the International Maritime Organisation's ongoing 'Go to Sea' campaign. This will include a tour of universities conducted jointly by GOP and APM Terminals Bahrain, the operator of Khalifa Bin Salman Port (KBSP). Featuring a series of lectures, this tour will enable students to learn from the maritime industry practitioners who will share their experience and knowledge. The tour will aim to encourage more Bahraini students to pursue careers in the maritime industry, thereby strengthening Bahrain's international position as a maritime centre in the long-run.
Additionally, a Maritime Photography Exhibition will be held throughout the week which will be open to the public and will feature historic and contemporary sea-related images that will serve to capture the life of the seafarers at sea, and Bahrain's ever-evolving maritime landscape.
Finally, a Seafarers' Welfare Day is being organised by APMT, to be held at KBSP especially for seafarers visiting the port. A special service offering free medical check-ups for all incoming seafarers will be provided, and a blood donation campaign will be held for APMT and GOP staff members.
The GOP joins many countries worldwide, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States to celebrate World Maritime Day. The event's date varies by year and country but it is always celebrated during the last week of September.


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Scratches and red marks
Posted 04 February 2010 - 10:56 PM
Once i figure out how to get the pics put on here i will add them to see what every1 thinks about them.
But untill then i was wondering if its possible to get scratched or something and not even feel it?
Posted 05 February 2010 - 04:51 PM
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Peace Sharon
Posted 06 February 2010 - 11:32 AM
If some would could help me get these pics posted i will gladly post them here for all to see.
Posted 06 February 2010 - 11:43 AM
above link is the red mark
above link are the red marks
Posted 06 February 2010 - 11:54 AM
first link is the red mark the second link are the five scratches. The scratches were first then about maybe 10 minutes later the red mark showed up. While cooking i never scratched myself and there is nothing in my kitchen to scratch me and with the red mark i never ran into anything either. To me the red blob looks kinda like a thumb mark.
Posted 07 February 2010 - 03:19 PM
Thanks for sharing your pics, Draggon!!
Posted 07 February 2010 - 05:21 PM
thank you again
Posted 07 February 2010 - 05:31 PM
It sounds like we played in the areas growing up. I was always out with the boys chasing frogs in the creek and nettle was always the worse. Most of my physical contact was I believe when a spirit was trying to get me out of a place or room. If they are upset enough to emit enough energy to try and push you it would make sense for the energy to sting when they make contact. I got a hug once by a small child that felt like being wrapped in warm blanket and an ugly red welt on my breast from a spirit at a prison.
Peace Sharon
Posted 07 February 2010 - 06:00 PM
Lets see if this works
above link is the red mark
above link are the red marks
Hi Draggon. I have never been scratched by an entity but I have had other freaky stuff happen to me. I have read about and seen scratches appear on other people and they are never good. Three scratches, from what I understand, are demonic. The three scratches mean something but for the life of me I can't remember what each of the three scratches mean. I don't necessarily believe that a hand was wrapped around your neck with the thumb on the side of your neck because I think that if this were the case the three marks on the back of your neck would be more slanted to the right. Did anything odd happen before, during or after the marks appeared? Also, I have heard that you do not feel the scratches at the very moment they are happening but very soon after they feel like a burning sensation.
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beginning. Keep us informed..
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 07:53 AM
All this might just be in my head cause of these scratches and my mind could very well be making all this happen but either or its kinda getting to me.
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After No Further Review
My baseball sources now confirm that despite the meandering nature of Commissioner Bud Selig's statement today about the Armando Galarraga game, Jim Joyce, Replay, and Zen And The Art Of Mistake Repair, you can take that statement as an indication that the matter of correcting Joyce's mistake is closed.
It is conceivable that the Commissioner might revisit intervening at some later date, but the further we march away from the hour of the blown call, the less likely any change is – and the chances right now are almost nil.
It should be noted again, of course, that from 1917 until late in the 1991, Ernie Shore and his family and friends were under the impression that he had thrown a Perfect Game – admittedly with an asterisk – until a special committee serving under the previous commissioner decided otherwise. Similarly, Harvey Haddix went from 1959 to '91 thinking he'd thrown one, too.
The Commissioner's lovely words about Mr. Joyce's honesty, and Mr. Galarraga's graciousness, sound filling and satisfying right now. I suspect history will be a lot tougher on the umpire – and the Commissioner.
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im sorry selig blew it (again) since he cares so little for justice and fairplay why should fans bother watching baseballs showcase,the all star game. I say boycott the game until galarraga is awarded his perfect game
Unreal. I consider Selig's decision to be worse than Joyce's blown call. Here's hoping he loses sleep for years over blowing this one. Somehow I don't think the impervious commish will miss a wink.
I guess getting the call right isn't in the best interests of the game. Oh well.
I believe the only fitting resolution for Bud Selig's desire to get things right and then do nothing is to ensure that August 24th when his statue is unveiled in Milwaukee that it's sporting a home Tigers jersey bearing Galarraga's name/number.
At what point do we stop overruling bad calls retroactively once we start? The Don Denkinger call? How about those crappy calls in the playoffs last year? The Jeffrey Maier game? Do we overrule the call that Joyce missed in the previous inning when he ruled Johnny Damon safe, too, and take away those last two Detroit runs? Do we bring games to a screeching halt every time there's a close play at any base? Do we have managers throwing red flags on the field?
Umpires mistakes are part of every game. Are we going to take away the Hand of God goal now, too? The Soviet Union's 1972 basketball gold medal?
If anything screams out for use of the ultimate power of the commissioner to act in "the best interests of baseball", this does. Selig is either just a useless tool or so removed from what actually goes on around him that he should just be a figure head. He has done nothing to make the game better and I would say under his watch it was actually diminished (revenues are not the only judge of success, Bud). They need to get someone in the position who actually can act in the interests of the game not just pose for pitures with Hank Aaron (another player he screwed over by not dealing with the steroid issue early and severely enough). I mean Judge Landis was pr*ck, but at least he got things done.
Commissioner should:
a) keep the call and the box score
b) direct that Gallaraga's name be added to the record books with a perfect game anyway (asterisk if necessary).
c) consider the use of replays (only sparingly) to correct egregious errors in players' records – but not to affect the outcomes of games
d) immediately give all umpires the same training on team communication skills that they give flight crews for airlines. If that training could help get Sully Sullenberger safely down to the Hudson, it ought to help umps avoid major league handle goofs like this.
VNo change needed. That's baseball. And it really was the perfect ending. Better than a Hitchcock film. With two class guys.
Selig made the right decision. I've made my arguments and I am sticking to them. The understandable outrage is based on pure emotion which tends to cloud people's judgment. I don't mean to cast apsersions on anybody's point of view (especially yours Keith). You are a smart man, smarter than I am. You believe you are right, I respect that. Where I am coming from is based on my own experience. I had a case before the Missouri Supreme Court where decades of law were cast aside because of an emotional reaction to the plight of a specific plaintiff. Since then, applying that law to other cases has been an absolutely horrific nightmare.
If I have offended anyone, I apologize. My opinions are my own and have no precedentiial value (no pun intended)
Keith, it's a good thing for me that you cannot throw paper wads in cyberspace.:>)
This changes my view of baseball, which should have been changed long ago. I am more cynical now. Baseball isn't about records and feelgood stories of championship teams and players doing remarkable things. Baseball is– as Bertrand Russell said of life– "nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." A botched call cost the Twins last year, as well as the Rockies in Game 3 of their series against the Phillies. Kenny Rogers beat the Yankees with a "smudge" on his hand. World Series champions of the past 25 years are littered with steroids users. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"– or "The Stolen Signs Seen by the Giants' Hitters"? What we see in the record books and on TV is history as written by the victors– like Romans with their throats on the stabbed Gauls– but the real interest is the back story, how this unholy mess is made to look somewhat orderly and logical. Once in a while we see it for what it truly is. My view of baseball, which was my escape from the real world, is now like my view of the real world.
Keith may be right in what history will say about this play … and the participants involved in it. But it is still the right thing to do.
Here's why: This is like eating potato chips. One just won't do. Once you start down the path of changing judgment calls on the bases, you cannot stop. It's a tough, miserable break for Galarraga.
But nobody said life was fair.
As long as imperfect people are playing in a game, imperfect people will be officiating. They will do the best they can. If they're not good enough, they will be replaced. It is really that basic.
Very simple…the ump blew it and Selig compounded the mistake. Armando Galarraga should be given credit for what he and his teammates earned. Anyone who has ever played baseball or follows it realizes that an amazing accomplishment was denied.
Selig should be highly criticized for this when you consider they allow a review over "home runs".
The runner was clearly out and the decision needs to be reversed.
Keith, you are wrong. In fact, I don't think you could be more wrong.
Since you love baseball and history, and baseball history, let's go back to 1951. Eddie Gaedel pinch-hit to start a Browns game. He was a midget. He walked. A pinch-runner replaced him. Soon, some baseball officials and "experts" demanded that Gaedel be expunged from the record books. No, said Bill Veeck, the genius who signed Gaedel, because that makes a true travesty of the game by disrupting the continuity of the game. If Gaedel never batted, Bob Cain never threw the pitches, Bob Swift never caught them, Ed Hurley never called them, no one pinch-ran, no one pinch-hit.
Removing Shore and Haddix from the list did not change what HAPPENED. That changed a statistic after the fact–no one was declared safe or out ex post facto. That is far different. It's like arguing that since we are 99.9999999 percent sure that Barry Bonds used steroids, we expunge his records. Which ones? Include what happened before steroids? Do we take away the outs recorded, too? Is that fair to the pitcher who threw the pitch?
I also do not like your tone about Jim Joyce. He is clearly crushed by what happened. But he didn't hide. MLB even offered him today off. He could have done that. He didn't. We should be praising him, Galarraga, and Leyland for their behavior. Compare it with how Whitey Herzog and the Cardinals behaved after Don Denkinger's call in Game 6, and Herzog's and Joaquin Andujar's ejections in Game 7 when Denkinger had the plate. Ponder the threats made on the lives of Denkinger and his family, and the St. Louis radio guys who gave out his home phone number on the air, and the comments made about Joyce on the internet. That is what you should be attacking. That you are not doing so is, frankly, shameful.
firstname.lastname@example.com, I agree that you are entitled to your opinion. Unfortunately, it's difficult to understand considering the facts. You say the outrage is based on emotion and there's where we disagree. There are rules in baseball and the runner was out. Pure and simple.
MLB and Selig need no other example that this one to allow for questionable reviews.
Personally, I don't see why MLB should even be considering reversing Jim Joyce's safe call at first, talking about instant replay for calls on the bases, or "helping" umps with ball and strike calls with cameras. Sometimes judgment calls get blown. It's part of the game, but by rule, those calls are final. Balls and strikes are called by umpires, plays in the field are called by umpires. They are human. They make mistakes sometimes. We may all agree they made a mistake after we see replays, and even the umpires they may (very) occasionally agree they blew a call, but once the call is made, the call is made. I say move on, thanks for a great game, Mr. Galarraga. Enjoy your new Corvette. Sorry you missed out on a perfect game because of a blown call, but we'll certainly all remember this day, and what a great game you pitched.
All I can say is (and I am going to use Keith's own words from his days at the Evil Mother ship), acting commissioner for life Bud Selig is lucky this wasn't a Twins pitcher. Gardenhire would have gone postal and would probably be suspended for the next gazillion games. Keep in mind there was no communication between the rest of the crew. As a high school umpire, we are taught to communicate on the diamond. Surely, the NIMROD behing the plate could have been backing Mr. Joyce up and, if needed, come in and call the out to at least discuss it.
Compare to game 3 of the Stanley cup finals last night. Two goals for Philly were ruled "NO GOAL." O'Halloran and McCreary got together and discussed the play (as they did on a botched icing call which was changed) and went to the replay. One call overturned, one upheld.
My point, if the technology is there to make sure the right call is made, USE IT!! And, most importantly, the ump's need to start communicating.
The call was a judgment call, no baseball rule was violated. Apples and oranges. If there had been a rule violated I would be singing a different tune. That fact is the underpinning of my opinion.
As I said I do not wish to offend anyone. I don't always choose my words carefully.
The delusion in this comment thread is that this is a "judgment call". There's no judgment to be made in which foot hit the bag first: It's a verifiable fact which foot hit the bag first.
You want to keep replay out of judgment calls? Okay. Sure. (Although even then the guy making judgments will be better served by having the best possible information available to him.) But most of baseball isn't a matter of judgments: It's black-and-white. Did the ball land on the left side of the line or the right side? Who's foot touched the base first?
@ron.aaron.eisenberg: The question of precedent is silly. Simply set the precedent that you'll only correct such stats if (a) they have no impact on the outcome of the game; (b) the original umpire making the call agrees it was blown; and (c) the change happens within 72 hours of the original call.
This isn't a case of an emotional response trumping good law. This is the case of a verifiably bad law creating a verifiably bad result. And MLB's unwillingness to correct either this specific situation or the bad rules which resulted in this situation occurring is truly problematic.
That's the real precedent that's being set here. And it's a horrible precedent. It's a precedent which will continue to injure the already tarnished reputation of MLB.
At least I didn't use the word "delusion".
I said in a comment to the previous post that I could argue this until the earth stopped spinning on its axis. You know what? I lied. I'm done.
If they had reversed the call, it would have set an ALARMING precedent. Namely, that in the event of a clearly blown call, which nobody disputes actually was a clearly blown call, and which, if corrected, would result in the final out in a perfect game, the commissioner may exercise the power to step in and make things right. Clearly that's something that would come up ALL THE TIME, so we'd better not get ourselves on that slippery slope.
Listen, the responses that "that's baseball," "slippery slope," or "the human element is part of the game" are just empty crutch words. I.e., it's jargon used to cover up an apparent preference to acquiesce to the formalism of the rules (even in the face of error and unfairness) and to defer to tradition simply for the fact that it's old. Instead, why not think seriously about the issue to try to come up with the best, most equitable solution?
I agree with historymike's post. The extension of overturning that call would require nullifying what little happened from that point.
Jim Joyce has also handled this situation with actual professionalism, a far cry from the petulance that seems to common among Major League umps. It is the unprofessional umps who act like cliche rogue cops from some bad movie that deserve our collective baseball outrage, not Joyce.
Bad calls happen in any sport- what seems unique to baseball is a portion of the umpire population incapable of professionalism. That group doesn't appear to include Joyce the misplaced target of anti-ump rage.
The right outcome would be to use this as the jump-off point for the real use of replay for fact-based calls like this one. Home Runs, fair/foul, close plays like this at bases. Hockey does replay well- it's quick, no challenges involved.
Galarraga bobbled the ball. Look at the centerfield replay. The ball looks like a snowcone in his glove as he looks down at the base. He then re-grabs the ball to seat it securely in the pocket of his glove. But the runner is already passed.
Don't let the hysteria sweep you away. Resist the rush to judgment. Decide for yourself at what point Galarraga demonstrated control of that ball. And maybe you'll find that the runner was safe. That Joyce made the right call after all.
Some people have touched on the real answer, and everyone else is ignoring it.
You can't only review this one call and then call it a perfect game. EVERY call would have to be reviewed in order to be accurate. It's either not a perfect game because humans make the judgments, or it is one (maybe) after using replay to make all the judgments. It makes no logical sense to pick and choose.
Bud Selig has no feel for the game or the moment. His lack of leadership and vision has seriously hindered the growth of baseball. Since he can't do his job, let Congress remove the status that baseball has and then the Teams should vote on someone who CAN lead.
For those who are concerned on the creep of innovation and technology, get over it! This is not 1890 baseball. There are tools out there to easily allow umpires to review calls when necessary. In fact, why do we even need umpires? With the current technology, we can detect balls and strikes, and what is a fair ball, and who is safe or out. Have an ump in the control room and there will be a lot fewer bad calls!
Olbermann do you have a clue? In no way is the Brett Pine Tar incident the same.It was overturned because the umpire misinterpreted a rule and made his call based on that misinterpretation. That's why it was reversed. Judgement calls (balls & strikes , fair or foul, out or safe) cannot be challenged or protested .
Imagine the Pandora's Box that Selig would open if he allowed the call to be overturned. Hey let's go back and retroactively overturn Denkinger's call in '85 so the Cards can be crowned the 1985 World Champs.
Everybody needs to get over it. Apparently everybody else is more upset about this than Galaraga is.
We're not talking about the result of the game here. The Tigers still won the game . We're talking about a personal accomplishment for the pitcher , not the result of the game. So they're going to make an exception for an individual's achievement ?
Let's say on that play the runner was safe by that same significant margin , yet Joyce calls him out and Gallaraga gets his perfect game. Do the Indians protest the call because had he been safe the inning would've been prolonged and perhaps the Indians rally and win the game? Oh and if this had indeed occured would everybody then be in an uproar about how Gallaraga had unfairly pitched and been awarded a perfect game when he didn't deserve one? YEAH THAT WOULD HAPPEN! Everybody be bending over backwards to excuse the bad call because , HEY! what the hell, IT'S A PERFECT GAME! No individual accomplishment should supercede the game. If events had transpired in this way , NONE of you would be on here bitching about how the ump gave Gallaraga a perfect game he didn't deserve. You can't have it both ways .
To get back to the proverbial "Pandora's Box" they'd be setting a precedent for any future similar event ,for example: Scenario: 9th inning ,game 7 , 2 outs no one on base. Yankees lead by a run .Same exact type of play occurs and runner is actually out by a step and a half ,yet is called safe. Next batter comes up and hits a 2 run GW HR . So now the Yankees get to protest the game based on the precedent set and the next day the commissioner has to overrule the ump and Yankees win . It would never end until replay was instituted.
Ump made a mistake .Move on!
I don't think overturning the call would necessarily create a bad precedent. This is a unique situation where everyone, everyone, knows it was a bad call and everyone knows what would have happened had it gone the right way. Of all the bad calls I've seen in my life, I don't recall a single one where that was the case. Even if the infamous Denkinger call in 1985 had gone the right way, who's to say the Royals wouldn't have put up a couple of runs anyway?
But more than that, changing it is good PR all around. Everyone knows it's the wrong call, and no one would be hurt by overturning it (except maybe Jason Donald's average, but I think that's a hit he's willing to take), but by sitting on his thumbs, Selig validates all of baseball's detractors who point out the purely human officiating when everyone else gets the benefit of seeing it again. Even the new home run call reviews are subject to human judgment; if the umps don't want to, they don't have to look at it.
It's a big failure on the part of Bud Selig, and if he won't change it, then I await the day that a future commissioner will.
With regards to Bud Selig overturning the call – absolutely not!!
My question is this: Had the blown call happened to the 1st batter of the game and not the 27th, (if Galarraga had retired the ensuing 27 batters) would the clamor for instant replay, for Bud Selig to overturn the call and, most importantly, for Jim Joyce to wear this like an albatross for the rest of his life have occurred? I really don't think so.
The bottom line is that this will, as Mr. Burns put it, force baseball to pay more than lip service to instant replay. I favor the challenge rule such as in football and tennis. But don't overturn the call or the outcome. Otherwise, they might as well review every play from every game and correct all of the ramifications of those errors as well.
I would normally agree, but you cannot change something that has no effect on the W-L column.
Do they go back to Don Larson's "perfect game" and change it, because the last strike was obviously high? Do they make all those old guys get back on the field, and replay the last out?
I feel so bad for Galarraga, but the call was made, right or wrong.
Just add this to the long, long list of crimes and misdemeanors Bud has committed on the game.
The Commissioner's office is an archaic relic in any case. It only worked in the days when people took everything handed to them by someone they perceived as an authority figure at face value without question. Over time, partially because of the men who occupied the office, and (to a larger degree) due to the fact that became better understood when Vincent was dismissed, (that the occupant was chosen by, and answerable to, only one side of the labor divide), more people have realized that the office is essentially useless.
Still, it has that inherent little bauble, the Best Interests of the Game power. It's been used for such lame and petty things in the past. This would have been a great time to use the archaic and foolish toy for a good end and establishing, in this one and only case, something about the spirit of the game. Instead, Selig acted in the finest traditions of Barney Fife and got it wrong.
This is not a crime. Not even close. It was not a perfect game. In order to be a perfect game not only the pitching and fielding must be perfect, but the officiating needs to be perfect as well. It wasn't. A perfect game is not just a triumph for the pitcher. He is not in it alone. If a game can be rendered imperfect because of a single fielding error, such as Jonathan Sanchez's no-hitter on July 10, 2009, why shouldn't an officiating error have the same effect? After all it is childs game, played and umpired by imperfect adults.
there may be a way to structure a reply regime that allows for a reasonable opportunity to review, and creates disincentives for abuse.
how about this: allow umpires, on their own initiative, to review calls any time they feel the need.
in addition, you could provide each manager with a limited number of challenges per game…and for this example, let's choose two.
while the challenges could be used at any time, a failed challenge would result in a sanction of some sort–perhaps a balk or an awarded out.
if the challenging team is playing defense at the time and a challenge is rejected, the penalty would be assessed during the next half inning, when they're at bat.
Every child who plays any sport from little league on up, every coach, teacher and parent, should be required to learn about Detroit Pitcher Armando Gallarraga and Umpire Jim Joyce in order to truly understand the humility, honesty, dignity, integrity and respect REAL sportsmanship requires. I stand in awe of these two men!
I wanted to comment because I would have agreed with most everything you said. That is, until I saw a closeup view of the ball hitting the palm of Galarraga's mitt, then creeping down its length until it appeared to be the proverbial snow cone. Few who stridently want the call to be changed to an "out" seem to have seen that particular replay, or they did see it, didn't appreciate the import of what they saw. I agree with rposborne, that the correct call was most probably made, even though Joyce believes he blew it. Apparently, he was only shown the wide-angle shot (shown repeatedly on ESPN and everywhere else in the known universe) and not the view that would either completely, or at least partially, have exonerated his call.
So, I am calling upon you, sir, (you must still have some pull at ESPN) to have that closeup replay shown again on SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight. Friday night would be great. Both in slow-motion, which was how I saw it, (the one time they played it, to my knowledge) and at full speed. Perhaps the hosts could reiterate the rule that defines an "out" recorded at any force-out base : that all three of these components must be true: the ball must beat the baserunner to the bag, fielder must touch the bag and the ball must be SECURELY in the glove or hand. Sorry, just two won't do.
I'm confident that those who say that the call was egregiously wrong would concede, at a minimum, that the call was far closer than thought without benefit of the "bobble cam" view. After fifty years of watching baseball, I've seen at least a dozen cases where the umpires makes the safe call and then mimes juggling, indicating "no catch". I'm not averring that the baserunner was definitely safe or out, just that there is a good case to be made that the umpire may have made the right call. He, and apparently many others, just haven't seen the evidence. The only other clue, albeit much weaker, was what I now believe may have been the sly, I-almost-got-away-with-bobbling-the-ball grin on the pitcher's face after the umpire made the call.
It is so painfull to see Bud selig's contempt for the integrity of the game. In these tough times, baseball is a great diversion and I have always loved it so deliberately not correcting a mistake that all agree occurred and which does not change the outcome of the game, the score, or the ERA of the batter cannot be defended. It's just one more example of the vanishing integrity of baseball. I will boycott the allstar game. I know that's lame but Selig has to understand that this has hit a nerve with the american public. It's a start.
Sorry, I was agreeing with plegge that perhaps Joyce didn't blow the call. Roll the clip!
Whether the call was correct or not is beyond the point. It is a travesty that instead of praising both of the gentlemen involved for their brilliant display of sportsmanship (which should stand as a lesson to us all) attention is focused on disregarding baseball rules and tradition just to please some individuals who didn't get the result they wanted.
The concept of a "perfect game" was revised in 1991 and ended up excluding even more brilliant performances like Harvey Haddox 12 "perfect" innings because he allowed a runner in the 13th inning.
Selig is far from my idea of a commissioner, but he did the right thing in this instance. Umpires make mistakes, always have, always will. Its part of baseball. Always has been. Its time to put this childishness behind us, grow up, and move on. Mr. Joyce (who has received death threats from those egged on by this "overturn" nonsense) and Mr. Galarraga have, so should the rest of us.
I'd hate to think that Bud Seligs decision could be driven by money. Perhaps bets or sponsorship to ensure that there is no perfect game. Shame on you Selig if you can be bought! Otherwise, I can't see how he can not overturn a blatant and obvious bad call.
Like you, Keith, I've been mentally thumbing through potentially analogous episodes in sports to compose a persuasive rationale for Bud Selig overturning Umpire Joyce's call on Wednesday evening. By now, you've heard or thought of them all: Cornell-Dartmouth, the "Pine Tar" game, Missouri-Colorado, etc.
A little while ago, however, I thought of a concept that might be even more suitable in this situation. Perhaps you've heard of it: "Moral Force." The speaker from whom I learned the concept described "Moral Force" this way:
"Factoring in the Human Equation?some sense of proportion into the rigid formulas of the lives we lead…. Saying, ?Most of the time I?m going to do what other people tell me I have to do. Most of the time, I?m going to follow the book. I?m never going to cut corners for personal gain. But whenever and wherever I can have a positive effect on somebody else?s life?I?m going to do it.'"
That same speaker also told his audience that they will improve the world if, once or twice in their lives, they will stand up and say, ?You know what? This is wrong for me and for people I know and people I don?t know, and I?m not going to do it.?
Commissioner Selig needs to draw upon his Moral Force and do the right thing.
Oh, and that speaker I quoted? Keith Olbermann, Class of 1979, speaking at the 1998 Cornell University Senior Convocation.
scottrontech, a 'snow-cone' catch is still a catch–this isn't football where the receiver must be in complete control of the ball before his knee touches the ground. If the ball had rolled in his glove to the point where he had to make a second grab at it, and in that small interval the batter's foot hit the bag, yes, the call would have been correct. But that's not what happened.
I agree with Keith's point that, if this call is not overturned, Mr. Joyce will end up being known as The Ump who Blew the Perfect Game. That would be nearly as pathetic as poor Ralph Branca being mainly known for The Shot Heard 'Round the World. As someone who has had the honor of meeting the warm, always soft-spoken Mr. Branca (and his lovely wife Ann) and talking to him many times in the past, I feel terribly sorry for anyone who has to live the rest of their life with a such a negative label hanging over them. Mr. Joyce does not deserve this.
I was a huge baseball fan when I was a kid. Spent every dollar of the money I earned mowing yards on baseball cards between the ages of 11 to 16, when I moved naturally onto spending money on my car.
I have such amazing memories of attending Nashville Sounds minor league games. Watching players like Willie McGee, Don Mattingly, and Steve Balboni move from playing minor league ball in my hometown to playing in the majors was such an awesome experience.
But I drifted away from baseball over the years. Seeing you discuss it on Countdown from time to time and reading your tweets about it makes me think I could rekindle that interest again.
But Bud Selig seems to be so tone deaf, so completely out of touch with the simple justice and amazing sportsmanship that both the ump and the pitcher have displayed here, and it is so discouraging, I just don't know what to think.
This is so obviously an opportunity to celebrate not only the skill of this pitcher, but the sportsmanship he and the umpire are demonstrating. Do the right thing, Bud.
For crying out loud, people, foot on the bag and ball in the glove is an out. Doesn't matter if it's a 'snow cone' or not.
Keith has it right.
The fact that the call was made to end the game (read: you can't use the "but even if he made the right call other things could have happened AFTER the call to change things" argument is reason enough to have this overturned.
Today's technology is different from what it used to be. There is no affect on the past if the league decides to use that technology (or, really, use the idea that we have the technology but MLB is too stupid to use it) to change a call. Selig needed to sack up and didn't…as per his usual way.
Please sign the petition!
If SNL can be persuaded, maybe Mr. Selig can be moved.
Many perfect games have been spoiled by a single error. The official scorer should change the hit to an error. Then the umpire should be charged with the error. Galarraga gets a no-hitter. Not perfect, but maybe it's a solution everyone can live with.
I have been a baseball fan since my father took me to Dodger stadium since i was a young boy. Baseball then was pure and exciting. Kofax, Drysdale, Mr. Clean Steve Garvey, and many more. I played little league baseball. No so good at it, but i loved it. Lessons of good sportsmanship, was always at the top. And with every game there are rules. And those rules of the game were enforced by the "umpire".
His judgement right or wrong is all part of the game. The recent game judged by the first base umpire changed game history. It was his honest call of "SAFE" was heard around the world. And we judged harshley. In the end it was still called as the ump saw it. And that is the way it should stay. Right or Wrong. An umpires judgement must stand. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ROOM FOR INSTANT REPLAY IN BASEBALL!!! PERIOD.
The camera does not lie. It's a machine, a thing. The game of baseball is life. And in life errors occur. So if we go to the way of instant replays, are we gonna have every ball and strike replayed ? Every foul tip replayed? The commisioner is right not to change the umpire ruling. It's recorded and let it stand. Keith Olberman. Check your back side. Hindsight is well what it is. Now lets see if you end up on SNL" again for your lambasting comments on the umpire call.
In other instances where a call would be a reversed one team and its fans would be outraged if a change were made. Royals-Cardinals. Angels-White Sox. In this instance, changing the hit to an out (which is what it was, an out) doesn't affect the outcome of the game or anger the other team. It gets the umpire off the hook and makes Bud Selig look good for a change. Worst Person in the World indeed.
Suppose that the runner was called out, but the replay showed that he was safe. Should the Commissioner take away the no-hitter and send back the game to be finished?
"We wuz robbed" is part of baseball.
To say replay has no place in baseball makes no sense. Officiating in all sports has a human element- but in other sports we seem willing to recognize that the objective officiating is to get as many calls right as possible. The circumstances for using replay can be easily defined. You confine it to calls that are fact based (catch/trap, fair/foul, etc) that don't involve judgments about how a rule is applied- like a balk call.
You don't have to have a stupid NFL-type challenge system. You can have a system more like hockey. Have it so a replay ump can alert the field umps of a review or the ump on the field on a close call will call the play dead (the players one the field 99% of the time ask for time anyway) and ask for a review. The review is done with in a minute or two and the actual correct outcome is determined. Now that's a pure result.
"We wuz robbed" is just a variation on Alexander Pope's spooky line: "Whatever is, is right." I don't know if "fatalism" is the word for it, but what I don't like about the people arguing against Selig overturning Joyce's call is the idea that it's over and done with. Selig has the power to do it, he has the fan support, and he has the moral rationale (if you argue that the mob can be wrong and sometimes you have to go against them). So use that power. And give the people what they want. This is like the argument that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because then we'd start letting people marry animals (as John Smoltz– great pitcher– once un-memorably said). Well, there isn't a clamor by society to marry animals. Such a demand doesn't even come in to the minds of most Americans, straight or gay. But there is a demand for marriage equality. The conditions should create the rules, not the other way around. That's how society was built in the first place. Yes I am getting too "deep" about this. But I guess that's why I'm so angry– moral relativism is always bashed until it happens to you; then, in your special case, well, maybe if your professor accidentally gave you an "F" in a class where you earned an "A" it should be changed so you can graduate. Things that can be changed should be changed. In a game where one city's fans would be outraged if the call were overturned, you can't change it. But in a game where nobody would be adversely affected (I doubt the Cleveland hitter really wants that hit) and a lot of people would benefit, use the power you have been given, as well as the support, to make a positive difference. This is one of the rare instances where my political views overlap with my views on sports. Rules exist because people make them, and we shouldn't allow the dead word and some reactionary sense of originalist intent of The Baseball Gods prevent us from using our own common sense and common decency to do what is right for Galarraga, the Detroit fans, baseball history and Jim Joyce's place in it.
I've been a Tigers fan since 1967 when they lost the pennant on the last day of the season. I had tickets to the game Wednesday, but had given them to someone else. I watched every pitch, and knew after about 4 innings it was going to be a special game (the same feeling I had watching Verlander's no hitter a few years back). I was furious with the call, and agree with everyone else that Mr Selig had a chance to shine, and chose not to.
However, in our own "Detroit way", I feel better now than I have since the game ended. I heard a caller on a local sports radio program state the following (I'm paraphrasing) The outcome of this affected really only 2 people: Jim Joyce and Armando Galarraga. There have been more internet stories, columns, blogs and googles about this event that affects these 2 men than there are about an ecological tragedy that is affecting millions, several states, and our country as a whole. THAT sort of put it in perspective.
Just my opinion, years from now no one (except real baseball nerds) will be able to link together the names of the pitchers who threw perfect games in 2010. But EVERYONE will remember this "perfect game" that was over ruled by an umpire's blow call.
I'm proud of all the people, including the fans, in my home town. In many ways the city is downtrodden, but this event, and local and national articles about it, show that while the city is sinking, the people continue to rise to the occasion.
For an example, please read these articles, which I choose simply for their take on how we, very close to the situation, are handling it. I've never been prouder of the team I've followed forever, our manager, or the fans:
Thanks for letting me have my say.
It isn't the 19teens any more. We have living, permanent proof in high definition when a call is horribly blown. And this one ruined a perfect game and an amazing moment in MBL history (3rd perfect game in such a short time span). All this "umpire error is part of the game" talk is rooted in an outmoded premise – that we have to accept even the most egregious of umpire errors, because we can't ever be totally sure we get every call right. Except now we can. The oft-repeated yarn of supposed old school sports wisdom needs to be relegated to the dustbin. Sportsmanship, honesty, and fan satisfaction all hinge on getting it right. A game decided unfairly is much less fun to watch.
The commish has already decided that replay can be used for even the most inconsequential of home runs – exhibiting his bias toward the money making long ball. But to use it to overturn a horribly bad call, one that wouldn't change the result of the game if overturned? Nah, he'll just sit on his hands. Just like he did with steroids. Just like he does with anything that doesn't fit a very narrow agenda that hasn't a thing to do with the integrity of the game.
Once again, Bud Selig proved that he is only good at two things: the aforementioned weak-willed laziness, and trying to wring every last ounce of joy out of baseball. In my case, it's working.
Agreed, let's boycott the All Star game. This might be a nice test case to see if the people in this country can get concerned enough about *anything* to so much as flip a channel in anger. My suspicion is they can't, and Bud knows it. One born every minute.
I have nothing to add to what triad3204 and others have stated here in defense of changing the call, except I doubt that those who exhort the rest of us to 'let it go' have not been the victims of a grave injustice that CAN BE corrected. Who benefits from letting this blown call stand? NO ONE.
Like Ken Burns, I hope this call will be overturned one day. If so, it is my fervent desire that both Galarraga and Joyce are alive to see it.
I doubt that those who exhort the rest of us to 'let it go' have not been the victims of a grave injustice that CAN BE corrected.
You would be wrong.
the proper scoring of the last non-out in the latest non-perfect game should have been E 11. (plate ump being 10) this preserves the call, the outcome, the precious sanctity so closely guarded by the ossified keepers of the flame, and allows the record books to fairly reflect the reality of the actual game. no violence is done to anyone or any institution. and everybody, save maybe the batter (although he's not talking much, as if anyone would listen), is happy. even the ump would approve, i'm sure.
the proper scoring of the last non-out in the latest non-perfect game should have been E 11. (plate ump being 10) this preserves the call, the outcome, the precious sanctity so closely guarded by the ossified keepers of the flame, and allows the record books to fairly reflect the reality of the actual game. no violence is done to anyone or any institution. and everybody, save maybe the batter (although he's not talking much, as if anyone would listen), is happy. even the ump would approve, i'm sure.
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The festival headliners come from afar. Gerry Carthy is a real-deal Irish performer from County Mayo in Ireland. He plays a slew of instruments and spins an enjoyable yarn in his native tongue. Hes able to appear at the festival thanks to his visiting professorship at Santa Fe College, where he also is an artist in residence for the New Mexico Arts Commission.
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Another duo, Jon Sousa and Adam Agee, have Colorado ties but know their Irish. Former Boulder resident Agee is a world-class fiddler who has taught and played in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, for the last 10 years. Guitarist Sousa received all of his considerable training in Ireland. Both men will teach workshops Saturday.
The rest of the lineup reflects Durangos respectable Celtic music population. Bigns, Patrick Crossing, Mad Haggis, Giants Dance, The Kitchen Jam Band, An Sliabh and Gypsy Fire.


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Malin Byström
Malin Byström received her training at Stockholm University College of Opera. In 2000 she sang Fiorella in Il Turco in Italia at the opera house in Lübeck, and for the next two seasons she was affiliated with the opera in Nuremberg where her roles included Musetta in La Bohème, Gretel in Hansel und Gretel, Gilda in Rigoletto, Annina in Eine Nacht in Venedig, Hermione in Boesman's Wintermärchen and Pamina in The Magic Flute.
As of 2002 Malin Byström is a freelancer and has performed at the festival in Bregenz (Musetta), at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (Amalia in I Masnadieri), in Mannheim (Musetta), in Montpellier (the leading role in Hindemith's Sancta Susanna), in Los Angeles (cover for Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Kent Nagano) and at Opera North in Leeds (the leading role in Massenet's Manon and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte).
In the spring of 2006 she sang Così fan tutte together with William Christie in Lyon and Don Giovanni in Amsterdam. The 2006/2007 season included Don Giovanni both at concerts in Örebro, Sweden, with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Lawrence Renes, and performances with René Jacobs in Baden-Baden, Hanna Glawari in The Merry Widow in Montpellier and Kullervo with the French National Orchestra in Paris.
Some of her most recent commissions have been The Countess in Figaro's Wedding at the Beaunes Barock Music Festival, La Scala debut with the soprano part of Beethoven's 9th with Kurt Masur, and Agathe in Der Freischütz in Bregenz. Works that Malin Byström has sung as a concert singer include Strauss´ Vier letzte Lieder, Mozart's Requiem, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Carmina Burana, Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Messias.
At the Göteborg Opera she has sung Margareta in Faust 2007 and participated in the Summer Concert of 2009.


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Phone directory of Volgograd, sorted by lastnames
Phone directory, sorted by last names — is a phone directory where listed lastnames in current city. If you select one lastname, you can see list of people with this lastname in current city. This phone directory will be useful for you, if you want to find some person and you know only his/her lastname. It is through with this phone directory Terminator T-800 found John Connor, a future leader of Resistance movement and helped him to win in the war of people with machines. Also, it is through with this phone directory Marty McFly found Dr. Emmett Brown in the 1955, who helped him restore historical course of events and come back to the future.
Dir: Russia → Volgograd → lastname Ryzhakova
Step 1. Select first letter of lastname:
Step 2. Specify first letters of lastname:
Persons with lastname Ryzhakova in the Volgograd city:
Volgograd, Ryzhakova: showed persons 16 from 6 (0.04 sec)
|Lastname, name
|Ryzhakova Ea
|Vodnikov Ul., bld. 4, appt. 23
|Ryzhakova Li
|Lomakina Ul., bld. 6, appt. 11
|Ryzhakova Vv
|Geroev Stalingrada Pr., bld. 56, appt. 101
|Ryzhakova Rk
|Stalskogo S. Ul., bld. 14, appt. 27
|Ryzhakova Li
|Grazhdanskaya Ul., bld. 34, appt. 442
|Ryzhakova Le
|Borby Ul., bld. 17, appt. 2
Persons with lastname Ryzhakova in other cities:
Ryzhakova, Velcom city
Ryzhakova, Aksu city (Pavlodarskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Almaty/Alma-Ata city (Казахстан)
Ryzhakova, Angarsk city (Irkutskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Astana/Akmola city (Казахстан)
Ryzhakova, Boguslav city (Kievskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Borisov city (Minskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Bratsk city (Irkutskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Bugulma city (Respublika Tatarstan)
Ryzhakova, Velikie Luki city (Pskovskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Vladivostok city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Vladimir city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Volgograd city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Volzhskiy city (Volgogradskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Voronezh city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Gomel city (Беларусь)
Ryzhakova, Dnepropetrovsk city (Украина)
Ryzhakova, Dukhovshchina city (Smolenskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Ekaterinburg city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Ivanovo city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Irkutsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Kazan city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Karaganda city (Казахстан)
Ryzhakova, Kemerovo city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Kerch city (Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym)
Ryzhakova, Kostroma city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Krasnodar city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Krasnoperekopsk city (Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym)
Ryzhakova, Krasnoyarsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Kurgan city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Langepas city (Khanty-Mansiyskiy Ao)
Ryzhakova, Lipetsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Magadan city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Magnitogorsk city (Chelyabinskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Minsk city (Беларусь)
Ryzhakova, Mogilev city (Беларусь)
Ryzhakova, Moskva city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Moskva city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Naberezhnye Chelny city (Respublika Tatarstan)
Ryzhakova, Nakhodka city (Primorskiy Kray)
Ryzhakova, Nizhnevartovsk city (Khanty-Mansiyskiy Ao)
Ryzhakova, Nizhniy Novgorod city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Nizhniy Tagil city (Sverdlovskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Nikolaev city (Украина)
Ryzhakova, Nikolaevsk-Na-Amure city (Khabarovskiy Kray)
Ryzhakova, Nikopol city (Dnepropetrovskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Novosibirsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Novocherkassk city (Rostovskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Novyy Urengoy city (Yamalo-Nenetskiy Ao)
Ryzhakova, Odessa city (Украина)
Ryzhakova, Ozersk city (Chelyabinskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Omsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Orel city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Orekhovo-Zuevo city (Moskovskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Petrozavodsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Pechora city (Respublika Komi)
Ryzhakova, Pinsk city (Brestskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Polotsk city (Vitebskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Porkhov city (Pskovskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Pochinok city (Smolenskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Pskov city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Rechitsa city (Gomelskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Rostov-Na-Donu city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Samara city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Sankt-Peterburg city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Saratov city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Simferopol city (Украина)
Ryzhakova, Sudak city (Avtonomnaya Respublika Krym)
Ryzhakova, Surgut city (Khanty-Mansiyskiy Ao)
Ryzhakova, Taraz city (Казахстан)
Ryzhakova, Uralsk city (Казахстан)
Ryzhakova, Usole-Sibirskoe city (Irkutskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Ufa city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Khabarovsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Kharkov city (Украина)
Ryzhakova, Cheboksary city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Chelyabinsk city (Россия)
Ryzhakova, Cheremkhovo city (Irkutskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Cherepovets city (Vologodskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Ekibastuz city (Pavlodarskaya Oblast)
Ryzhakova, Yaroslavl city (Россия)
Other phone directories of Volgograd:
- Phone directory of Volgograd (by custom parameters)
- Phone directory of Volgograd, sorted by phone numbers (view by phone numbers)
- Phone directory of Volgograd, sorted by streets names (view by streets and buildings)
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Efforts by members of Congress to slow the Department of Labor's reproposal of its fiduciary rule will have little to no effect, Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of DOL's Employee Benefit Security Administration, said Tuesday.
A bill introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., that will be marked up by the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, requires that the DOL wait to publish its fiduciary rule for 60 days after the Securities and Exchange Commission releases its fiduciary rule proposal.
When asked after her remarks at the Insured Retirement Institute's regulatory conference in Washington if DOL was going to wait for the SEC to publish its rule, Borzi (right) exclaimed: "Of course not."
DOL, Borzi told reporters, "began working on its rule" to amend the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act "before Dodd-Frank." DOL, she said, is "coordinating very closely with the SEC to make sure we don't have outright conflicts," adding that it was ludicrous for lawmakers to think that "one statute is more important than another."
Twenty-nine members of the Congressional Black Caucus, two from the Hispanic Caucus and one from the Asian Pacific Caucus told Seth Harris, DOL's acting secretary, in a June 14 letter that DOL's reproposal should be executed "carefully, prudently and in conjunction with the SEC to avoid uncertainty and disruption" in the retirement marketplace. The caucus members said they were jointly concerned that the reproposed fiduciary definition could "restrict our constituents' access to professional financial advisors."
Borzi told reporters that while the DOL "shares" members of Congress' concerns, and is being "cautious" in its redraft, the feedback lawmakers have given is not slowing the release of the redraft in a couple of months.
At that time, the reproposal will be sent to the Office of Management and Budget, and then DOL will go into what she called "radio silence" about the reproposal.
The reproposal, Borzi said—which will come in a three-part package that includes the proposed regulation, the economic analysis and the prohibited transaction exemptions—is really one rule: "that you have to put the best interest of your client ahead of your own."
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Atlas of Vietnam
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|Map of Vietnam (in Vietnamese). Includes island claims.
|Map of Vietnam (in English). Includes island claims.
|Map of Vietnam from the CIA World Factbook.
|Map of Vietnam from the CIA World Factbook (translated to Vietnamese).
|Physical map of Vietnam.
|Political map of Vietnam.
|Satellite image of Vietnam.
|Map of Vietnam's railway network.
Maps of divisions
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|Map of Vietnam administrative divisions. Includes island claims.
|Map of the Regions of Vietnam.
|Map of the Provinces of Vietnam (in Vietnamese)
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Provincial locator maps
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Vietnam, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Vietnam.
Chinese empires
|North Vietnam ruled by Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD).
|Han civilization 87 BCE.
|Han Civilization 2 BCE.
|Han foreign relations.
|Western Han Dynasty.
|Han Dynasty 189.
|North Vietnam ruled by the Three Kingdoms, 220-280.
|North Vietnam ruled by the Western Jin Dynasty (265-316).
|Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420).
|Vietnam under the Chinese Tang Dynasty, 608-907.
Other empires (pre-19th c.)
- Funan
|Parts of Vietnam under control of Funan.
- Khmer, Champa, Dai Viet
|Parts of Vietnam under control of the Khmer Empire.
|Kingdom of Champa's core territories.
|Southeast Asia in 900.
|Southeast Asia in 1000–1100.
|South East Asia circa 1100 showing the approximate areas of control for the Dai-Viet (Vietnam), Champa, and Khmer Empires.
|Southeast Asia in 1300.
|Southeast Asia in 1400.
- Dai Viet
|Vietnam around 1650.
|Southward expansion (Nam Tien) of the Dai Viet Empire.
French Indochina (1887–1954)
|Map of French Indochina.
|The Expansion of French Indochina.
|French Indochina, 1954.
|The drawing shows the French disposition at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, as of March 1954. The French took up positions on a series of fortified hills (shown in green). The southermost, Isabelle, was dangerously isolated. The Viet Minh positioned their 5 divisions (the 304th, 308th, 312th, 316th, and 351st) in the surrounding areas to the north and east. From these areas, the Vietminh had a clear line of sight on the French fortifications and were able to accurately rain down artillery on the French positions.
Japanese occupation (1940–1945)
|Map of the Japanese Empire (1870-1942)
North Vietnam (1954–1976)
|Locator map of North Vietnam.
|Map of North Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Việt Nam Dân Chủ Cộng Hòa).
South Vietnam (1954–1976)
|Locator map of South Vietnam (Nam Việt Nam).
|Map of South Vietnam.
|Map of South Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam (Việt Nam Cộng Hòa) in 1967.
|Map of the Tet Offensive.
Other historical maps
|Animated map of the history of railway construction in Vietnam, 1881–1966.
|Map of the Sino–Vietnamese War (Third Indochina War), 1979.
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
|Early Western Map of Tonkin (1651).
|Indochina in 1886.
|Tonking, Östl. Hinterindien, Hue, Ha-Noi (Meyers Konversationslexikon), 1888.
|Indochina in 1905 (German).
|Indochina in 1931 (Czech).
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The Filibuster
The only thing that suprises me about the Los Angeles Dodgers this year is that they sold for over two billion dollars. TWO. BILLION. DOLLARS. Holy Koufax, Batman! That's Albert Pujols money!!!
With legitimate superstars like Matt Kemp and Clayton Kershaw anchoring the team, it was only a matter of whether or not off-the-field issues would cause a disturbance. Now that there aren't any, they're free to do their thang, and as long as that includes Andre Ethier knocking in everyone in front of him and stellar performances from castaways like Chris Capuano and the longtime hookin' lefty, Ted Lilly, then it really is their division to lose. Kemp is currently on the 15 day DL and they're still mowing through the opposition.
To me, the Nats aren't a suprise either. I think the consensus among learned baseball folk was that they were going to be good soon, it was just a matter of how soon. With Michael Morse sidelined due to injury and an anemic offense through the first several weeks of the season, it seemed like they had some time before they'd be that team to beat; but pitching wins championships and their pitching has been as impressive as the St. Louis Cardinals' travel day attire.
The real surprise — the real head-shaker du jour — is the cartoon bird in Baltimore bringing a moribund and aloof baseball club back to serious life. Last year saw them get off to a good start, and I thought they might really be making a move back to the Oriole Way, but their youthful inexperience eventually backfired, ending in a bucket of Showalterian scowls.
But consider the performances of Jim Johnson, Matt Lindstrom, Pedro Strop, Luis Ayala, Darren O'Day and even Kevin Gregg — yes, KEVIN GREGG — and you'll see that it's easier to win ballgames when your bullpen doesn't come in and yack up the place. For those of you who follow the Birds, you know that a yackin' bullpen has been as much a staple of the beltway as corrupt politicians screwing their constituents. Yeah, well, not everything can change.
Just as excited as I am about the Orioles' resurgence, I'm equally as revved about the Toronto Blue Jays, yet another AL East team that just won't back down. They're hitting everything. They are pitching with authority. And their Canadian poster-boy is keen on taking on the silliness that is MLB umpiring, one batting helmet at a time.
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Was Thanksgiving dinner different during Victorian times? If you were to sit down at a Thanksgiving table in 1883, you would see the familiar turkey and cranberry sauce and pies. But, what might surprise you would be, first, macaroni and cheese, and next, the meal that arrived when the Victorians called for macaroni and cheese.
In 1883, macaroni was said to be an acquired taste, and was still unfamiliar to many. To make macaroni and cheese, housekeepers were advised to boil the macaroni, then mix in a tablespoon of canned tomatoes, and then add a layer of freshly grated cheese. On top of this, successive layers of boiled macaroni, canned tomatoes, and grated cheese, were added until the serving dish was filled. When the resulting meal was delivered to the Thanksgiving table, it might be more familiar to us as a sort of lasagna instead of the macaroni and cheese we know.
Not surprisingly, if you were to venture into the kitchen, the meals most familiar to us would be somewhat unfamiliar in their preparations. Soon after arriving home with the Thanksgiving turkey, housekeepers were advised to dress the turkey, and then bathe it several times in a mixture of salt and water. After washing it a few times, and after preparing a brisk, healthy fire, the turkey was roasted. Two hours was the suggested roasting time for a ten-pound turkey. The dressing was made of bread crumbs, butter, salt, pepper, thyme, sage, sweet marjoram, and one egg. It was kept moist by adding in some hot milk. Many liked chopped onion or sausage to be added. As the turkey roasted, it was basted with butter,water, and later, pan drippings. Before bringing the turkey to the table, many added fried oysters to the plate.
Before the advent of canned cranberries, the preparation of this Thanksgiving tradition was a source of anxiety for many. One writer claimed that there was no fruit that was "more widely abused." To prepare a quart of cranberries, housekeepers were advised to have a pint of cold water and a quart of sugar at hand. After washing the berries, housekeepers were advised to add them and the pint of cold water to a granite saucepan, and begin cooking them slowly. Hard boiling would ruin them. As the berries cooked, the sugar was to be added in slowly. As the berries, water, and sugar melted into a syrup, more sugar was added. The mixture was never to be stirred and took about 45 minutes to prepare.
As they are today, pies were a Thanksgiving Day staple too. Two varieties, mince and pumpkin, were the most popular. Most advice of the time assumed that just about everyone knew how to make a good pie crust and that any country woman worth her salt could make a top-rate mince or pumpkin pie. In the country, mince meat would need to be made long before the Thanksgiving Day holiday. In the city, it could always be purchased, whenever needed, at the grocery store. To make a pumpkin pie, a housekeeper needed a pint of stewed pumpkin, strained through a sieve. To this, four eggs would be added, along with a quart of milk and some spices and sugar. After baking, the pie was sprinkled with powdered sugar and brought to the table. Other familiar sights filled out the Thanksgiving table of 1883. Mashed white potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, celery, pickles, and bread were all there. So were sweet cider, raisins, nuts, and black coffee. Cole slaw was another popular component of the Thanksgiving Day meal.
Like parents today, Americans living in Victorian-era Massachusetts, worried about how to entertain the little ones. One Boston Globe writer advised involving the children in making their very own Thanksgiving Day creation. The writer advised providing the children with a large moulding board and a tin pan, far away from the kitchen. With the pan on the moulding board, the children were to add 12 tablespoons of white flour, some water and a handful of raisins. After this, they added four tablespoons of sugar , some molasses, vanilla flavoring, cinnamon, and allspice. One egg later, the concoction was ready to cooked on the stove for two to three hours. The writer advised saving the eggshells for ornamentation. The smell of burnt pastry was the sign that the children's creation was done. It wasn't edible, of course, but children could then be escorted outside to the woodshed, where a helpful adult would dismantle their concoction with a sledgehammer or axe.
One look at Thanksgiving Day advice for 1883 shows that the Thanksgiving meal hasn't changed much in the last 130 years, even if the preparation of the meal, and diversions for those not involved in the preparations, have. Sure, Thanksgiving dishes of macaroni and cheese and cole slaw might seem strange to us today, but the turkey and cranberry sauce were still the mainstays of the Thanksgiving meal even then. And, hasn't the Thanksgiving meal always been about the turkey and cranberry sauce?