Question: If the runner from second base passes the runner from third base en route to home plate and the umpires do not see it transpire, is the runner out?
Answer: Not necessarily. At least not if the all umpires are busy watching a fly ball in the outfield and miss the call on the fly ball. In this particular case, after the umpires receive a verbal lashing from the manager of the ball club, and then meet and determine the right call, the baserunners are put back where they would have been had the correct call been made.
Editorial: This missed call followed by a reversal ultimately worked in the favor of the Atlanta National League Baseball Club. Had the umpire made the correct call initially, two runs may have scored considering that the bases were loaded with players from the New York National League Baseball Club.
What puzzles me is why Angel Pagan of the New York Metropolitans, who was the runner on second base, took off running on a ball hit in the air with less than two outs. The reason he passed Ryan Church, who was the runner on third base, was that Church went a third of the way to home and looked back to see the umpire's call. Church was running the bases like a professional baseball player aware of the game and inning situation. Pagan seemed to make a bush league base running error. Had a center fielder with just a little more range than Mark Kotsay, e.g. Andruw Jones, made the catch cleanly, Pagan would have been out and the Mets little rally would have been no more. Now, if the umpire had made the right call initially and Pagan run the bases like a professional, Church would have scored the second run of the play and Pagan ended up on third base with less than two outs.
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05 April, 2008
27 December, 2007
Compensation
Today, the Supreme Court of the Great State of South Carolina ruled that a company must pay workers compensation to an illegal alien in 26409 - Curiel v. Environmental Management Services. The final ruling of the court seem in line with the statute:
"Every person engaged in an employment . . . including aliens and also including minors, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed."
Not to mention the opinion in the ruling carries a certain amount of common sense:
"Further, allowing benefits to injured illegal alien workers does not conflict with the IRCA’s policy against hiring them. To the contrary, disallowing benefits would mean unscrupulous employers could hire undocumented workers without the burden of insuring them, a consequence that would encourage rather than discourage the hiring of illegal workers."
Even though the court made a ruling in line with the statute the divisive politicians and talking heads decided this court ruling must be some sort of tragedy that the state General Assembly must fix immediately. One of the first state senators to chime in on this was Glenn McConnell.
Senator McConnell seemed to indicate that this ruling would cheat citizens out of money they put into the state disability insurance fund. He failed to mention the money that so-called illegal immigrants put into the system when they work. Any law to change this statute would result in illegal immigrants putting money into a system that insures everyone except them. The ultimate result would be correspond to the opinion quoted above. Things like this get lost in the propaganda of the times.
The real solution, which is almost always the solution to immigration questions, it for employers to do better due diligence. Instead, people attempt to be as divisive, abusive, and polarizing about this as they can.
"Every person engaged in an employment . . . including aliens and also including minors, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed."
Not to mention the opinion in the ruling carries a certain amount of common sense:
"Further, allowing benefits to injured illegal alien workers does not conflict with the IRCA’s policy against hiring them. To the contrary, disallowing benefits would mean unscrupulous employers could hire undocumented workers without the burden of insuring them, a consequence that would encourage rather than discourage the hiring of illegal workers."
Even though the court made a ruling in line with the statute the divisive politicians and talking heads decided this court ruling must be some sort of tragedy that the state General Assembly must fix immediately. One of the first state senators to chime in on this was Glenn McConnell.
Senator McConnell seemed to indicate that this ruling would cheat citizens out of money they put into the state disability insurance fund. He failed to mention the money that so-called illegal immigrants put into the system when they work. Any law to change this statute would result in illegal immigrants putting money into a system that insures everyone except them. The ultimate result would be correspond to the opinion quoted above. Things like this get lost in the propaganda of the times.
The real solution, which is almost always the solution to immigration questions, it for employers to do better due diligence. Instead, people attempt to be as divisive, abusive, and polarizing about this as they can.
19 November, 2007
23 October, 2007
Heterochromia
Due to the recent popularity of certain pop, dance, neo-soul, and novelty acts, I have taken time to ponder the genre sometimes called, "blue-eyed soul." Like any curmudgeon worth his salt, I tend to resist the popularity fast rising stars. I may even deride them for no reason except that they are new and popular. Enter Joss Stone.
I saw a couple of her performances on late night television while she was promoting her most recent album, "Introducing Joss Stone." Her brand of neo-soul was rather captivating--almost too much so. I allowed some time to pass and stumbled across a couple of her videos on an Internet based video service and found myself hooked, so I purchased the album without doing a whole lot of research beforehand. "Introducing Joss Stone" turned out to be quite the purchase and found itself in moderate rotation.
About this time I did some research to find out more about the album and discovered that most of the writing and production was done by Raphael Saddiq (a.k.a.: Raphael Wiggins, Charlie Ray Wiggins). This made it clear that the deep allure of the album was it sounded like one of the lost Tony! Toni! Tone! albums: "Star Kitty's Revenge" (Joi), "Brown Sugar" (D'Angelo), "Lucy Pearl" (Lucy Pearl). I found this a little reassuring that what hooked me on the album was not so much a white girl from the U.K. singing neo-soul, but rather Raphael Saddiq's intoxicating, unique mix of Soul, Rock, Funk, New Jack Swing, and je ne sais quois. After all, the album includes cameos by Lauryn Hill and Common [Sense].
The bottom line on the album is that between Saddiq's music and Joss Stone's sound it is a good listen. It is a little draining to listen to love song after love song, but the music is good enough that you can tune out the words and still enjoy it. As I said before, the album made its way into moderate rotation.
I saw a couple of her performances on late night television while she was promoting her most recent album, "Introducing Joss Stone." Her brand of neo-soul was rather captivating--almost too much so. I allowed some time to pass and stumbled across a couple of her videos on an Internet based video service and found myself hooked, so I purchased the album without doing a whole lot of research beforehand. "Introducing Joss Stone" turned out to be quite the purchase and found itself in moderate rotation.
About this time I did some research to find out more about the album and discovered that most of the writing and production was done by Raphael Saddiq (a.k.a.: Raphael Wiggins, Charlie Ray Wiggins). This made it clear that the deep allure of the album was it sounded like one of the lost Tony! Toni! Tone! albums: "Star Kitty's Revenge" (Joi), "Brown Sugar" (D'Angelo), "Lucy Pearl" (Lucy Pearl). I found this a little reassuring that what hooked me on the album was not so much a white girl from the U.K. singing neo-soul, but rather Raphael Saddiq's intoxicating, unique mix of Soul, Rock, Funk, New Jack Swing, and je ne sais quois. After all, the album includes cameos by Lauryn Hill and Common [Sense].
The bottom line on the album is that between Saddiq's music and Joss Stone's sound it is a good listen. It is a little draining to listen to love song after love song, but the music is good enough that you can tune out the words and still enjoy it. As I said before, the album made its way into moderate rotation.
18 July, 2007
Little Cat Feet
Mark Twain has been incorrectly credited with the quote: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." I never really appreciated this assertion until I spent a July weekend tooling around the City by the Bay. My previous trips had been in the spring and winter. Cool air, fog, and wind aside I took a great exploratory walk from the Mission to Golden Gate park to visit the de Young Museum.
While the museum was quite stimulating and comes with my personal recommendation, the surprisingly interesting part of the excursion was walking from the Mission to Golden Gate park. I got lost en route and had the chance to walk through two neighborhoods I may not have seen on foot otherwise. Luckily, I sincerely believe that a great way to see a city is to get lost in the middle of the day when it is not raining. The glaring exception would be Los Angeles. The City of Angels is a terrible pedestrian experience.
While the museum was quite stimulating and comes with my personal recommendation, the surprisingly interesting part of the excursion was walking from the Mission to Golden Gate park. I got lost en route and had the chance to walk through two neighborhoods I may not have seen on foot otherwise. Luckily, I sincerely believe that a great way to see a city is to get lost in the middle of the day when it is not raining. The glaring exception would be Los Angeles. The City of Angels is a terrible pedestrian experience.
06 June, 2007
Heisenberg
Today, during a typical geeky e-mail exchange, Ranting Nerd and I switched places for moment on the quantum level. He posed to question to Zetetical and me that normally I would pose to the former two. I later answered with a response that the Nerd may have actually given me in the past.
The Problem: Applying anti-spam rules for personal (user@) and administrative (root@, webmaster@, postmaster@, etc.) e-mail that arrive in the same mailbox is a logical nightmare.
The Answer: Maintain separate mailboxes for personal e-mail versus administrative e-mail.
Why this works: There's a whole lotta spam!
Why this *really* works: On a bad spam day an individual mailbox can get flooded to the point that the piled up e-mail has a DoS effect. I.e. the spam pushes a mailbox past a disk space quota. Directing all the RFC necessitated recipients to your personal mailbox invites this to happen sooner than later. It would be teh suck if personal e-mail bounced or was hidden beneth a slew of "spoofed header" bounces to postmaster@mydomain.
The Problem: Applying anti-spam rules for personal (user@) and administrative (root@, webmaster@, postmaster@, etc.) e-mail that arrive in the same mailbox is a logical nightmare.
The Answer: Maintain separate mailboxes for personal e-mail versus administrative e-mail.
Why this works: There's a whole lotta spam!
Why this *really* works: On a bad spam day an individual mailbox can get flooded to the point that the piled up e-mail has a DoS effect. I.e. the spam pushes a mailbox past a disk space quota. Directing all the RFC necessitated recipients to your personal mailbox invites this to happen sooner than later. It would be teh suck if personal e-mail bounced or was hidden beneth a slew of "spoofed header" bounces to postmaster@mydomain.
17 May, 2007
Ticks & Leeches
One of my tasks as a System/LAN/Windows Administrator is putting together performance graphs of various systems I administer. Among these systems is an e-mail content scanner that performs content and virus scanning of incoming e-mail before it reaches the back-end storage server. Like most applications, this e-mail content scanner works fairly well once it is properly configured and the annoyances are beaten out of it. To properly beat the annoyances out of an e-mail gateway, it helps to have current and historical information about its performance in an easy to read web interface-- and 9 out of 10 IT managers love it. To this end, I use MRTG.
My method, while involved, is rather straight forward: Install a configurable SNMP provider on the host(Windows); create custom MIB/OIDs that use the NT Performance Counters provided by the application; populate an MRTG configuration file with these custom OIDs as targets. As long as the performance counters I want to query exist, this works like a charm.
Let me tell you why I am mad: Between major version releases the good folks from whom I purchase e-mail content scanning software decided to replace a counter I considered integral to monitoring the performance of the software: "messages queued for processing." They chose to include a counter of the time difference between the receipt of a message and its processing. While the latter is quite useful, it is no replacement for the former. Who would not want to know how many messages are piled up on the server awaiting an available processing thread? My only conclusion to the rationale for this is they, the software manufacturer, want to sell a plugin (pronounced: custom dll) for the SNMP agent/provider of their choosing.
The workaround: I will write a quick and dirty script to count the files the queues on the content scanning server; make this an extension in my configurable SNMP provider with its own MIB/OID that calls this script; and configure an MRTG target with this OID. Subsequently, I shall prepare myself a sandwich.
My method, while involved, is rather straight forward: Install a configurable SNMP provider on the host(Windows); create custom MIB/OIDs that use the NT Performance Counters provided by the application; populate an MRTG configuration file with these custom OIDs as targets. As long as the performance counters I want to query exist, this works like a charm.
Let me tell you why I am mad: Between major version releases the good folks from whom I purchase e-mail content scanning software decided to replace a counter I considered integral to monitoring the performance of the software: "messages queued for processing." They chose to include a counter of the time difference between the receipt of a message and its processing. While the latter is quite useful, it is no replacement for the former. Who would not want to know how many messages are piled up on the server awaiting an available processing thread? My only conclusion to the rationale for this is they, the software manufacturer, want to sell a plugin (pronounced: custom dll) for the SNMP agent/provider of their choosing.
The workaround: I will write a quick and dirty script to count the files the queues on the content scanning server; make this an extension in my configurable SNMP provider with its own MIB/OID that calls this script; and configure an MRTG target with this OID. Subsequently, I shall prepare myself a sandwich.
16 April, 2007
All I wanted was a printer....
Main Entry: cur·mud·geon
Pronunciation: (")k&r-'m&-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
1 archaic : MISER
2 : a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
- cur·mud·geon·li·ness /-lE-n&s/ noun
- cur·mud·geon·ly /-lE/ adjective
Pronunciation: (")k&r-'m&-j&n
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
1 archaic : MISER
2 : a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
- cur·mud·geon·li·ness /-lE-n&s/ noun
- cur·mud·geon·ly /-lE/ adjective
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