Let's take a gander at Washburn's numbers this year, as well as some splits. (All statistics cited in this post were taken directly from baseball-reference.com).

GS: 19
W-L: 4-9
IP: 110
H: 131
BB: 32
K: 65
ERA: 4.75

Using these "19th-century" statistics, we can see that Wash has been respectable but far from spectacular. Seattle's terrible offense aside, he isn't exactly tearing up opponents. Or is he?

March/April: 33.1 IP, 4.86 ERA
May: 20.1 IP, 9.30 ERA
June: 30.2 IP, 2.93 ERA
July: 25.2 IP, 3.16 ERA

His totals are clearly skewed by a horrendous May. Outside of that, he's posting a sub-4.00 ERA. Hey, that rhymes.

Now, I certainly wouldn't expect him to keep up this pace, but a resurging Yankees offense and flyball-friendly ballpark would give him the firm support he needs. Lefties are OPS'ing just .646 against him, and we know well how the cavernous left side of Yankee Stadium's outfield hurts right-handers. He is notable for pitching well at the House That Ruth Built for a while, but that's not enough reason to get him, in my opinion. I simply like the situation and his career. He should be had for a B-level prospect and perhaps cash, and Jarrod has postseason experience. Being left-handed is usually to your benefit as well.

Ignoring statistics for a moment, I'd like to make it known that I largely advocate this move in the favor of the Yankees, and for the Mariners, albeit to a lesser extent. The Yanks get a veteran lefty who has pitched well in their home ballpark for nothing of interest to them, and the M's dump unnecessary salary. As an added bonus, the Yankees would have him under contract for 2009 at the reasonable sum of $10.35MM. Andy Pettitte and Mike Mussina are not automatic re-signs, so I take this as a plus and not a negative as many have claimed across the 'Net.

The bottom line: Brian Cashman, go get 'em.

I really should do some work, for although I have time until my deadline I was given this assignment a little early so I should try to finish it a little early. I feel I have been arrogant in assuming that I am superior and secure and should not take too many liberties. One of my colleagues who I have little respect for professionally has got a new job and will be leaving in four weeks to go to London. He will undoubtedly be much better paid there. As it is I need to keep my job for the stability it offers, though if they are already down a person they are hardly likely to fire anyone else. I can but hope that his salary will be divided amongst the rest of us to make up for the lack of pay rise. To be more serious when my partner gets a job I expect he will be earning more than me and combined we may start to have a comfortable life.

I decided to use Patons 100%wool baby 2 ply in white for this shawl as I have 10 x 25g in my stash : ) I can always overdye it if I want too later.

Edit by YFSarah: there is no deadline for completion, but there is a prize for the first knitter to post a completed shawl to the knitalong, and the KAL blog will be open for two months after the winner is known.

They learned how to use prosumer cameras properly. How to use the manual iris, focus, and white balance. They learned how to improvise when plans had to be changed. They learned that making a movie is a LOT of work...but there is fun to be had along the way.

I learned that a two hour trip into San Francisco is not a good time to finish editing the movie. Adam Nino got motion sick.

We couldn't export our final movie to tape after numerous tries, so exported as a video file. Now you know and I know that five minutes of video takes up one gigabyte of hard drive space. Sure - it doesn't. Our final video was about 4:57 - and 1.3GB.

At 7pm we went for a quick cut - took about :10. Still too big. Finally whittled it down to 4:35 and an 857mb file that would fit on a 1GB flash drive.

On delivering our movie, we found out we weren't the last - there were still six or seven teams still out. Elena Cruz, the San Francisco coordinator, said about 20% of films come in late on average.

So the bad news - we were late and can't really compete.
The good news - our movie will still be shown in San Francisco in a week to a real live paying audience AND we are still eligible for the audience choice award.

Sweet.

UNITED E-NEWS 04/07/08:
UNITED CONFERENCE 4-9 November 2008 near Belgrade (RS)
"Europe under Construction: Imagine our Future without Hate!"

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Contents of this E-news:
- Call for nomination
- Description and aims
- Program (draft)
- Technical Info
- Expression of interest e-form

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Dear colleagues and friends,

please find below the information and nomination form for our next UNITED Conference,
"Europe under Construction: Imagine our Future without Hate!", 4-9 November 2008, near Belgrade (RS)

Conference prepared by:
* Afro-Asian Community of Moldova (MD)
* Association of Recognized Refugees in Cyprus (CY)
* Civic Assistance Committee Refugees & Forced Migrants (RUS)
* Ethnicity Research Center (RS)
* MTP Oradea (RO)
* QUEERIA Center (RS)
* Master on Immigration Programme University of Venice (I)
* UNITED for Intercultural Action

With the support of:
* European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe

All information and the e-nomination form can be found below, and on our website www.unitedagainstracism.org

If your organisation is interested to nominate a representative, please return the expression of interest form (below) as soon as possible (deadline 5 September 2008), preferably by email to serbia@unitedagainstracism.org
- Please fill in this form completely providing all data as requested. If you invest more effort in the application it has more chance to be successful!
- Each organisation can register only ONE representative (living in Europe). Priority is given to participants under 30.
- Sending this form to UNITED does not guarantee that you will be selected for the conference - we receive many nominations.
- Only those candidates selected for participation will be contacted via e-mail ± 15 September 2008.

Best wishes,
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UNITED CONFERENCE 4-9 November 2008 near Belgrade (RS) - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

DESCRIPTION AND AIMS:

* What is Europe today?
* Who are the Europeans?
* How does our part shape our future?
* Does history repeat?

Entire Europe has been facing great social, economic, political and cultural changes in last few decades. Twenty years ago our continent was still divided by an iron curtain in a Western and Eastern Block and it was not commonly expected that this situation would ever change. Moreover, 20 years ago there still existed a country in the Balkans called Yugoslavia - and the war in the region wasn't expected either. But it happened. Communism collapsed and Yugoslavia was dissolved.
Countries from Eastern Europe started a difficult transformation and European integration process, facing different challenges at all levels of society. Passing through major changes and leaving the past behind is a difficult process.
Meanwhile, Western Europe is also changing. Immigrants are searching for jobs and better life, refugees, IDP's and asylum seekers from many countries are looking for a safe place in Europe to live a decent life. Their languages, cultures, customs and religions are making Europe more diverse and colourful. There is diversity, but is there unity as well? There are a lot of stereotypes, xenophobia, intolerance and discrimination. New forms of racism are appearing targeting new groups that must be protected.

There are great challenges in front of all of us. Europe is an old continent with a past full of conflict, still in the process to define its identity and shape its future. The aim of the conference is to strengthen the anti-racist movement in Europe, particularly in the Balkans, and to promote solidarity among civil society organisations.
The conference will bring together around 70 NGO participants from different social, national, religious or other minority background, and offers the possibility to share visions of European past, present and future in working groups, strategy building workshops, presentations, political cafes, panel discussions, intercultural activities and many other occassions.

The main themes of the conference are structured in the following working groups:

* No way In, No way Out! Refugees, IDP's and Asylum Seekers.
Legislation and different practices in Europe regarding migration conditions, asylum policy, detention and Internally Displaced Persons.

* Who shall we blame now? Inequality and vulnerable groups
Weak points of European governmental policy, vulnerable groups and phenomena affecting them: criminalisation, trafficking and exploitation.

* Sociophobia! Creating our Enemies, Facing our Fears.
The role of prejudices and stereotypes about minority groups in social segregation and discriminative political discourse.

* The Dead End of Dialogue! Radicalism and Tools of Propaganda.
The impact of radical propaganda on public opinion and colors of extremism.

* Accept your Past, Build your Future! Post-conflict Solidarity, Responsibility and Reconciliation
Learning the lessons from the past and taking the responsibility for the future we want.

* Do you believe it? New Faces of Racism, New Target Groups of Racism.
New faces of racism appear as history is repeating itself, this time targeting different groups of people in Europe.

UNITED is the largest pan-European anti-racist network of more than 560 organisations.
Through its conferences anti-racist and human rights activists from all parts of Europe meet and discuss effective ways of combating racism and discrimination. At a recent UNITED conference held in May 2008 in Stockholm more than 65 delegates representing organisations from 30 European countries analysed the current situation of people affected by discrimination in Europe and developed common strategies to improve cooperation and promote tolerance.

While the Yankees worry about their own team, they'll also have to deal with both the Rays and the Red Sox. Now, the Rays stumbled into the AS break losing 7 games in a row. The Red Sox are worried about slugger David Ortiz as well as Julio Lugo. Both of these teams have the ability to get better by trading for talent. In fact, wouldn't it be the smart thing to do for the two teams, especially with the Yankees limping 6 games back in the standings? The Sox and Rays smell blood right now, and if they were to make a solid acquisition by the trade deadline, while the Yankees stay content and make bargain bin moves (which aren't inherently bad of course), what would that say about the team?

Brian Cashman is in a precarious position. If the Sox or Rays traded for a big time talent, everyone would call for him to respond. However, this year, he's shown that he doesn't want to trade away his top prospects for outside talent. He's actually letting the farm system bubble over and stew. But, imagine if the Rays acquired Matt Holliday? What would that do to the AL East? Could the Yankees even compete at that point? What's difficult for Cashman is the nature of his team. It's built with big names and big contracts, contracts that have ironclad trade stipulations and limitations. If Cashman wants to blow the entire thing up and trade his players, he simply cannot do that. So, in a sense, he HAS to make moves and create a contender.

However, maybe the trade deadline will come and go and we'll see that Cashman has done nothing to better the team. Maybe he'll ride it out and see if the team just puts it together in the second half. That probably won't bode well for the Yanks since a rotation featuring Rasner and Ponson won't do much damage and Melky Cabrera isn't exactly a paragon of offenisve excellence. That non-move would mean something, though. Basically, if it fails, it fails. People always talk about Hughes and Kennedy and how they'll signal a new era in Yankee baseball. But, by not making a move come the trade deadline, forget Hughes or Kennedy, Cashman's non-move will probably become the definitive signal of that new era in Yankee baseball.

It feels good to know I can write a story in the same time I take to report on the story. I guess as with every else in life - the more you do, the better you get.

Read the article here on TCPalm.com: "IRSC is 'Expanding Horizons': Program offers students insight to science career opportunities."

I also suggest you check out the Web site of the Scripps photographer I met today, Alex Boerner. Browse his incredible photos at www.alexboerner.com.

hari-hari penuh dengan stressing kerjaan. ok ok aja seh. seandainya aja, dengan kerjaan yang banyak gitu itu bisa mengurangi berat badanku =)) rofl !

jam udah 7:29. laper. makan apa ya enaknya jam segini ? tempe penyet? lagi males masak neh. somebody give me ideas....

skripsi ya. skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi skripsi. oi rief ! skripsimu gak bakal beres dengan kamu wiridan skripsi skripsi gituh !! ayo diurusin. hari ini. sempatkan. gak peduli besok ada ujung revolver yang nempel di jidatmu.

awas koen !! nggih pakde !

By Martin Couper

A PENSIONER had a lucky escape after having a heart attack in the street - because three emergency service workers happened to be passing.

Marcus James, 73, was walking to a bus stop near his home when he collapsed and lost consciousness.

The frail OAP stopped breathing after the fall and needed emergency treatment.

And as luck would have it an accident and emergency nurse, an off-duty policewoman and a cardiac nurse were all walking by and saved his life.

Last night, Mr James praised the brave trio and said that angels must have been looking after him.

He said: “The angel of the Lord was there with us that day, I’m convinced of that. I’m so thankful to the people who stopped.

An off-duty policewoman was the first to attend to Mr James after she spotted him lying face-down on the ground in the pouring rain.

She began to give him CPR before she was joined by accident and emergency nurse, David Adams, 35, who had jumped out his car when he noticed the situation.

Mr Adams performed mouth to mouth while the policewoman pressed down on his chest.

The nurse said: “There was no pulse and no breathing at that point. I was wondering how long he had been lying there.

“I just wanted to give him the best chance possible before the ambulance arrived.”

The pair were then assisted by a Fiona Low – a cardiac nurse who was walking by.

Ms Low said: “We followed the resuscitation guidelines surrounded by a group of passers-by. I felt my knees were going to give up - but we certainly were not going to.”

Ten minutes later, a one-man ambulance crew arrived and used a defibrillator on the former special-needs teacher before a second ambulance arrived to take him to hospital.

And Mr James was quick to praise the efforts everyone who helped save his life.

Mr James’s frail health means he is usually accompanied by his wife and full-time carer, Margaret when he leaves the house.

Mr James had previously been admitted to hospital in 1999 for a quadruple heart bypass and then again in 2000 following a stroke.

Both Mr James and his wife are now planning to thank those who helped him survive.

He said: “We’ve written letters, but I haven’t gotten down to polishing them up and getting them away yet.

“We’ve told them we’re very grateful though. We know they’ve done a good job.”

Lucky Mr James added: “They did a first class job. I was well blessed in that they were there at the right time.”

I may have to rethink the Aug 1st deadline. I've lost so much time due to other things that I don't think it's a fair timeline anymore.

Mi-e foarte greu, ma trezesc dupa ora 10, nu trebuie sa indeplinesc task-urile de la birou, nu mai e agitatie, nu am deadline-uri, pot sa stau pana la 3 dimineata sa ma uit la filme, nu tre sa mai merg cu metroul supraaglomerat pana la munca, nu imi mai suna telefonul de 50 de ori pe zi, ora 18:00 nu mai este ora eliberarii mele de stres, nu mai tanjesc dupa ziua de vineri, astept cu nerabdare sa plec joi la mare :D

http://pinevalleybible.com/recreation

So, please join us if you can! Feel free to ask anybody on the YSC staff if you have any questions. Hope to see you soon! It's less than a month away!

With Moises Alou out of the picture, and Ryan Church being questionable, the Mets are definitely looking around to fill in some of their outfield holes.

The current word is the Mets are looking to get Jason Bay and may cost outfield prospect Fernando Martinez.  First, let's take a look at Bay.

Bay is a 29 year old OF, making $6M and currently hitting .287 with 19 HR's, 56 RBI's, amounting to a .918 OPS on a bad Pirates squad.  Not bad.  Let's take a closer look.  Over his career, Bay has very good numbers at Shea.  He's batting .303 with a .957 OPS with 5 HR's in 76 plate appearances.  So, how about pre and post All Star Break numbers?  Bay slightly tails off after the break according to his career numbers, but not by much.

So overall, if the Mets are going for the championship this season, Bay should be a great addition to the Mets, probably worth trading Fernando Martinez for and should pay off for the next 2-3 years.

Tatis is probably going to continue being a starter for the rest of the season, possibly sharing a little time with Endy Chavez.

I am almost positive that Omar Minaya will be making a move before the trade deadline, whether it be Bay, Nady, or even pitcher A.J. Burnett.  In any case, let's hope the break won't cool down the Mets too much.  Enjoy the HR Derby and All Star Game!

When I say peer pressure, I'm talking about positive expectations from your songwriting peers, for example your co-writer, song circle or local songwriters association. Unlike the peer pressure in high school, you want this kind of pressure (it's support, really). If you don't have any songwriting peers you can trust, go to the Songwriter's Tip Jar forum and get something started for yourself.

A deadline is another motivator. I give myself arbitrary deadlines, but that doesn't work as well as a real deadline. Taxi members have strict deadlines. Other examples of deadlines are when writing for a specific event (like a benefit concert, a recording session) or when writing to a title for a monthly song circle (see the previous post for more on writing to a title).

PLEASE go to http://www.hillaryclinton.com/ and donate what you can...  even if it is $1, that would get us $1 closer to our goal!!!

(as a side note, i swear to god that i will do everything i can to make sure that all the party heads are out of a job if they do this)

seorang teman pernah membisiki saya, sekitar 13 tahun yang lalu. "fem, kamu senyum dong kalo bangun pagi ..." katanya. saat itu kami tinggal di rumah asrama yang sama. saban pagi, kami selalu bertatap muka. membersihkan rumah yang sama. belajar bersama. hingga menutup hari, saat rumah harus dikunci dan waktunya tidur malam.

ah, iya. saya selalu kusut kalau bangun pagi.

saya terlalu repot memikirkan apa yang harus saya rampungkan sepanjang hari, saat itu. sekolah, sidang akademi, menulis, opera, belajar  ...

tapi saya tak lagi di sana. di penjara itu. di asrama itu. mestinya saat ini saya bisa mengisi hari dengan cuilan senyum. setidaknya, pada layar monitor.

hanya saja, tetap tak mudah berbagi senyum saat deadline tiba. rasa terburu-buru seperti mengharuskan saya untuk segera merampungkan pekerjaan. juga, sedikit rasa panik jika tidak ada narasumber yang bisa digenggam.

saya tahu, saya harus lebih belajar tersenyum.

Jeff's come under a lot of heat for two major reasons. One: GE's stock has been flat since Immelt took over from infamous CEO Jack "Neutron Jack" Welch and Two: Slipping up on an earnings estimate that was "in the bag".

How does Jeff attempt to redeem himself? ...more

En tout cas dans l'IT je ne le conseille pas... Deja que quand on fait du recrutement on se rends compte a quel point c'est dure deja de faire venir les gens...le bon jour...a l'heure...(cela fera l'objet d'un autre post) mais travailler avec un independant que vous ne gerer pas en direct qui "travaille" de chez lui c'est mission impossible... Aucune notion de deadlines, ils ne reviennent jamais vers vous pour vous poser des questions... et apres 2 semaine de retard vous contacte comme par enchantement, vous montre un travail qui a demande....allez 1 journee de boulot....dur dur....je viens encore d'en faire l'experience et vraiment c'est dur...finalement autant prendre le risque de reembaucher quelqu'un ou refuser le projet...(mais c'est toujours dure de refuser un projet quand on demarre)

Courage..

Menurut Parkinson's Law, jika seseorang diberikan waktu 24 jam untuk menyelesaikan sebuah pekerjaan, maka tekanan waktu akan membuat orang tersebut fokus mengerjakan pekerjaannya, dan itu memaksa orang tersebut mengerjakan hal-hal yang benar-benar penting dan esensial. Akhirnya, pekerjaan tersebut dapat diselesaikan dalam waktu 24 jam.

Berikutnya, cobalah berikan pekerjaan yang sama dan berikan waktu satu minggu. Pekerjaan yang sebenarnya dapat diselesaikan dalam waktu 24 jam tersebut baru akan selesai setelah hari ketujuh... Jika diberikan waktu dua bulan, selama itu juga pekerjaan tersebut akan diselesaikan. Yang mengejutkan adalah, hasil pekerjaan yang dilakukan dalam 24 jam tidak kalah baik (bahkan mungkin lebih baik karena pengerjaan yang lebih fokus) jika dibandingkan dengan hasil pekerjaan yang dilakukan dalam waktu 2 bulan!

Sebagai seorang deadliner, saya merasakan Parkinson's Law ini ada benarnya, dan sering saya rasakan. Jika saya diberikan waktu satu minggu, pekerjaan satu hari dapat menjadi pekerjaan satu minggu. Ternyata, deadline sangat mempengaruhi waktu penyelesaian pekerjaan. Seperti kata Parkinson, pekerjaan individual yang memiliki deadline yang panjang jarang diselesaikan di awal-awal, melainkan penyelesaiannya cenderung mendekati deadline.

Kabar baik buat bos-bos nih... "My employees will work better with short deadlines." :mrgreen: Tapi jika hukum Parkinson ini disalahgunakan dapat mengakibatkan worker abuse... Kabar buruk buat para employee... :(

Bagaimana pendapat pembaca tentang hukum Parkinson ini? Kira-kira apa saja kebaikan dan keburukannya ya?

~beberapa deadline tugas masih menanti. Ngeblognya sampai di sini dulu yah...