My greatest home run call

Hello from Walla Walla, Washington where I spoke this week at the Walla Walla Sweets kickoff dinner.  People always ask "what's your greatest home run call?"  It came my first year in the minors with the Syracuse Chiefs, and it became sort of a legend.   The Syracuse Post-Standard even did a story about it as recently as last month.   So I told that story and will repeat it here.   Even if

ECOLOGY AND ORGANIC FARMING IN BELARUS

LAW ON ORGANIC FARMING
COMING SOON IN BELARUS

http://news.belta.by/en - The law on organic farming may be passed in Belarus in 2014, Nikolai Ivanchenko, head of the Initiative group, vice-chairman of the permanent commission on ecology, environmental management and the Chernobyl disaster of the House of Representatives, told reporters. The MP said that organic farming is very important in the world today. More and more people prefer organic food. 
“Production of ecologically clean food increases every year. For example, in China the annual growth is about 20%. Chinese import of organic food to Europe reaches $6 billion. This is a big economy, and our country cannot stand aside, it must also participate in this process,” said Nikolai Ivanchenko. According to him, this is an extremely important task for Belarus. 

Belarus can set up a harmonious system for the production of organic products by bringing together MPs and all agencies concerned, according to the MP. “We need to develop the bill on organic or ecological agriculture, and on organic products,” said Nikolai Ivanchenko.  Pursuant to the orders of the head of state on the development of organic agriculture in Belarus, the government has already adopted a relevant resolution, developed a plan of activities for the production of organic food products. The MP stressed that organic farming would help the country preserve one of its main resources - land. 
Today farmers use various chemicals, mineral fertilizers that leave a negative effect on soil. Organic farming is one of the ways to maintain soil fertility. Besides, eco-friendly production will help conserve the nature, improve people’s health and the demographic situation in the country.

Good news as regards Organic Farming! The House of Representatives of the Republic of Belarus has recently hosted a roundtable to assess the efficiency of the implementation of the project of international technical assistance in organic farming. The event is aimed at promoting cooperation and experience sharing between Sweden, Lithuania and Belarus in developing sustainable organic farming and permanent food communities for enhancing the level of knowledge in organic farming and its benefits for the nature of both Belarus and the Baltic region. “We will take foreign experience into account, it is valuable and important for us,” the MP Nikolai Ivanchenko said. We should support organic farming because Nature by itself provides everything to produce healthy, nutritious fruits, vegetables and grains.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US? 

Organic food is grown in a natural way, without chemical fertilizers, without pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or any other poison. And, of course, with original, unaltered, unmodified seeds. ... Plants are perfect as they are. They fulfill a purpose in nature. So there is absolutely no need to do speculative experiments with gene-technique on the seeds, in order to modify the plants. ... The customer has the power to support the production of organic food, restrict the production of genetically engineered food and the use of chemical substances, simply by buying natural, organically grown foodstuff and not accepting altered food. And preferably buying directly from farmers or local stores. We have to educate and inform ourselves about how to support local communities. 

Śrīla Bhakti Aloka Paramadvaiti Mahārāja :
"Organic Farming vs Exploitation"
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http://asktheswami.blogspot.com.ar/2005/11/organic-farming-vs-exploitation.html

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Friday Questions

Friday Questions this week come to you from Walla Walla, Washington. Your first question is “what am I doing in Walla Walla, Washington?” I spoke last night at the kick off banquet for their summer college league team, the Sweets. Thanks to all for a great and fun evening. Okay, here are your Q’s and my A’s:

Starting us off is Andrew Wickliffe:

I'm watching season 11 of MASH right now

Hooters Girl Lindsey Part Two: The Hooters Girl Professional Pose

There are guidelines for Hooters Girl poses.  Every professional Hooters Girl knows how to pose for the camera.  Hooters Girl and model Lindsay Michelle provided me how to beautifully do it properly in front of the camera the Hooters Girl way!  Here are my photos of Hooters girl Lindsay in multiple professional Hooters Girl poses:

Photograph of the authentic Hooters Girl posing in the professional Hooters Girl pose with the hands on hips with the ever so cute smile. Rating:  8/10

Probably the best Hooters Girl pose hands down.  Her hands are on hips legs bent, shoulder not square but bent at one angle, S curve pose, chest out, standing a bit sideways with the beautiful smile.  Rating:  10/10

 Hooters Girl flaunt pose with Lindsay's chest out, 45 degree angle pose, hands on hips, one leg bent and the impossible smile not a lot of girls can accomplish. Rating 9.5/10

 Popular backside Hooters Girl pose to emphasize more of the orange shorts with the head over the shoulder, back arched, leg bent at the regular 45 degree angle.  Rating 10/10


Now imagine her without her sexy little orange shorts and white Hooters top:

Remove her orange Hooters shorts and She's just as more beautiful without her Hooters uniform!!!

More photos of her can be seen on http://modelandmuse.com

These are the two guys we wanted to be

When my partner, David Isaacs and I were starting out, writing spec scripts and trying to break in, THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW was on every afternoon. We’d watch it religiously, both for inspiration and laughs. Unlike most shows today, the writing credits of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW were at the end.

We considered ourselves such students of the show that we tried to guess who wrote

MAY 1 or MAY DAY

FROM BANGLADESH TO EUROPE ANGRY
WORKERS RALLY IN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS

www.csmonitor.com - In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a raucous crowd descended on the city center with signs and drums, chanting and waving banners demanding the death penalty for the owner of a factory where more than 400 people died in a building collapse last week.In Jakarta, Indonesia, some of the tens of thousands of demonstrators marching through the city came dressed as ants - complete with bright red outfits and antennae - to depict the exploitation of workers. And in Greece, trains, buses, and ferries sat vacant and hospitals nearly empty as thousands of public sector employees walked off the job in a one-day strike.
Each year, May 1, better known as May Day, is marked with labor rallies and strikes around the world. And this year's holiday came at a particularly prescient moment in many parts of the world. 

From Europe, where the bite of austerity has left many facing down unemployment and reduced benefits, to South and Southeast Asia, a region cluttered with precariously-built factories similar to the one that collapsed last week in Bangladesh, demonstrators gathered to vent outrage and demand reform. In Phnom Pehn, Cambodia, workers rallied for higher wages and safer working conditions. In Manila, Philipines, where labor unions are banned, workers marched to demand the right to organize. And in Hong Kong, thousands turned out in support of striking dock workers, calling for wages that would help close the income gap between the country’s rich and its poor. 
In Greece, where the government recently announced that it would lay off 180,000 civil servants over the next two years a strike shut down public transit across Athens.  And in France, which saw unemployment rose again last month, marchers carried banners reading, “Where are the real socialists in our government?”

Ryan Lenora Brown, correspondent from CSMonitor, explains that May 1 is a national holiday in some 80 countries around the world, and its ties to labor advocacy date back to 1886, when American police killed 10 protestors at a rally for an eight-hour workday in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. International socialist organizations and labor unions declared it a day of commemoration and action soon after. "Ironically, however, May Day is not celebrated in the United States. In the early 1890s, fearing the “socialist” overtones of the holiday, President Grover Cleveland quickly declared an alternate holiday, beginning the American tradition of celebrating Labor Day on the first Monday of September," Miss Brown adds. In the Bhagavad-gītā, Sri Krishna described very clearly karma, akarma and vikarma. 

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US? 

The living entity has to work for his livelihood because that is the law of material nature, and if he does not act according to his prescribed duties, he transgresses the law of nature and binds himself more and more to the cycle of birth and death. ... Actions that free one from the cycle of birth and death are called akarma. ... Ordinary men wish to perform good work in order to be recognized and achieve some higher status of life in this world or in heaven, but more advanced men want to be free altogether from the actions and reactions of work. Intelligent men well know that both good and bad work equally bind one to the material miseries. Consequently they seek that work which will free them from the reactions of both good and bad work. 

Śrīla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda :
Śrī Īśopaniṣad
Iso mantra 2
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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase

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Summer Movies Preview 3

Part 2 was yesterday.  Part 1 on Monday.  Today I wrap up my annual look of what will be going on in the background while people text:  


THE BLING RING -- Emma Watson in a true story about teenagers who rip off stars like Lindsey Lohan. Wouldn’t it be great if Emily was caught and then had to share the same cell as Lindsey? Now that movie I’d see.

THE INTERNSHIP – Vince Vaughn re-teams