Did you See? Female Japanese baseball video Sidearm Knuckleballer

Incredible professional Japanese baseball girl! Eri Yoshida She is 17 years old and throws a 45 mph sidearm knuckleball. youtube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RskEUWoZNoc

check out the video
skip to 1:40 mark for slow motion pitch and 4:45 where she faces live batter.

She learned by watching a video of Tim Wakefield. I wonder if it was this video? - 2 minute mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHBl4Nl2Fkc

from today -Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old who throws a sidearm knuckleball, took the mound in the ninth inning of Kobe 9 Cruise's 5-0 win over the Osaka Gold Villicanes in the newly formed Kansai Independent League.

She walked the first batter leading off the inning on four pitches and allowed a stolen base before striking out the next batter swinging at Osaka Dome. She was then replaced after facing just two batters.

The five-foot, 114-pound Yoshida is hoping to stick with the men's team. Friday's performance was far from conclusive but at least she has the first strikeout of her career.

"I wasn't thinking about anything other than just going out there and giving it my all," Yoshida said. "I think this was a bad result but the stadium is great and the fans were really cheering me on. I want to be able to pitch more innings and become a pitcher who can be relied upon."

Yoshida created a stir when she signed a contract in December to become Japan's first female professional baseball player.

What does 1 Trillion Dollars look like?

This graphic is just a measly one million or 10,000 $100 dollar bills.

This is what one trillion dollars would look like. 1 trillion dollars




$1 trillion deficits seen for next 10 years - AP article -



Ron Paul - he makes so much sense people think he is crazy.

National Citibank - Great new bank saved by Government

From Funny or Die

The future of banking.

The New F***ing Citibank - watch more funny videos

From Time Magazine who to blame - top 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis

Yes Ninja Cat

Yes 9 million hits - Did you see?
Ninja Cat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M

Lebron James matches Dwight Howard

Underhanded Half Court Shot....

Did you see this?

Lebron James hitting underhanded half court shot and Dwight Howard just tossing in a shot from 75 feet - all net.

Worst Rap Battle Performance - Eli on the Mic

This comes up if you type in worst battle in google.

Awesome - I think he says something about "Rosie ODonnell at a bisexual bridal shower?"

Skip ahead to 2:20 mark.

Worst Rapper?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpw6CzprNY

Best Star Trek fight of all time

What a battle - Kirk manages to get out of death grip and avoid a boulder... Over 4 million views

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1eFdUSnaQM

Victory Gardens

A "Victory" or "War" Garden is a concept from World War II. With overseas troops needing supplies ,rationing and high food prices, the government mandated "patriotic" efforts and spawned recycling and garden projects.

The ultimate "buy" local effort that is still valid today.

Check out this family in California. According to Natural Home Magazine, in an article " Pasadena Paradise: The perfect garden with creative urban results" written 2 years ago, The Dervaes produce 3 tons of food and are about 60 to 150 times as efficient as their industrial competitors, without relying on chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Original Victory Garden Materials - brought to you by PARAGON OIL (Bought by Texaco in the 60's) Photos of Book

Oldest Victory Garden

According to the website the Fenway Victory Gardens is the last of the World War II victory established in 1942.

Reasons to Start a Victory Garden
1. Rising Food Prices
2. Cost of travel to grocery store
3. Cost of shipment of vegetables to your local grocery store
4. Personal responsibility and self sufficiency
5. Teaches your children and yourself where you food comes from
6. Cuts down on spoilage and letting items go unused in your refrigerator
7. Although we have been told the American Way is to buy and waste this is only a recent "American Way" fostered by only the last half of the 20th Century

Old School "green" Lawnmowers and Electric

Below are some quiet, lightweight, energy efficient alternatives to help mow your lawn. Your big box retailers want you to abuse your oil gas mower and toss it in the landfill like these to the right. The promote "Why not just buy a cheap one every few years", "they arent supposed to last"... $$$ for them.

It does seems like an American Right to have a loud, gas smelling lawn mower but really who needs that... These lawn mowers require no oil changes, no gas to buy, no sparkplugs, throttles and will have no broken starters, no oil clogged filters, limited pr no rust and they just start right up with very few moving parts.

You can use the rechargeable cordless versions say by black and decker or similiar or purchase a long extension cord and use the "corded" versions. Once you figure out to just work away from the extension cord you are set. Yes your neighbors on their fancy expensive John Deeres may scoff at your 100 foot orange power cord but guess what as they are traveling to the gas station to fill up a 5 gallon container for $20.00 you are plugged in and done for pennies. If you choose the old school push mower you will use no electricity and just use your body power! Another alternate is to let some of your yard go natural... planting wildflowers or setting up areas to attract birds.



I was looking for a photo of a pile of broken lawnmowers like at your local dump. Like here http://www.flickr.com/photos/73448981@N00/2348359080/

and found this... Wow - check this project out... $699 could make it prohibitive but maybe in the future. Probably a recycled electric motor would work or some kind of charging station that could charge several units? Solar powered lawnmower

http://www.appropedia.org/Solar_Charged_Lawnmower

Fallen Fruit - Urban Food Sources

Fallen Fruit Project in Los Angeles.

http://www.fallenfruit.org/whatisfallenfruit.html

"Public Fruit" is the concept behind the Fallen Fruit, an activist art project which started as a mapping of all the public fruit in our neighborhood. We ask all of you to contribute your maps so they expand to cover the United States and then the world. We encourage everyone to harvest, plant and sample public fruit, which is what we call all fruit on or overhanging public spaces such as sidewalks, streets or parking lots.

We believe fruit is a resource that should be commonly shared, like shells from the beach or mushrooms from the forest. Fallen Fruit has moved from mapping to planning fruit parks in under-utilized areas. Our goal is to get people thinking about the life and vitality of our neighborhoods and to consider how we can change the dynamic of our cities and common values.

-Fallen Fruit is David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young