“Hollywood Runs on Alcohol: Daryl Hannah and Ed Begley, Jr. Campaign ... - The Daily Green” plus 4 more |
- Hollywood Runs on Alcohol: Daryl Hannah and Ed Begley, Jr. Campaign ... - The Daily Green
- Marine's Mom: I Wanted So Much More Time - NBC San Diego
- Friday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Midnight Mayhem ... - Who Won
- West Arrives at Cavs' Camp - Hoops World
- Preview MotoGP Portuguese Round - Daily Telegraph
| Hollywood Runs on Alcohol: Daryl Hannah and Ed Begley, Jr. Campaign ... - The Daily Green Posted: 01 Oct 2009 03:24 PM PDT Ed Begley, Jr. (in blue), David Blume (in jacket) and Daryl Hannah with Begley's alcohol-burning Prius. (Jim Motavalli photo) I loved the second part of Kill Bill, especially the fight sequences, and for a Hollywood movie it had pretty good cars, including a bright yellow Chevy Silverado SS dubbed "The Pussy Wagon" and a black 1980 Trans-Am that Daryl Hannah's eye-patched character Elle Driver got to drive at high rates of speed. When encountered at the "Alcohol for Sustainable Living" press event in Los Angeles Monday, a non-eye-patched Hannah said that director Quentin Tarantino kept telling her she wasn't driving fast enough. "We were racing through the desert with him aboard, and we came to a 15-foot gully. Quentin shouted, 'Jump it!' I said, 'You're crazy, it's only a movie. We'd be killed.'" The Trans Am (one of two; the better one went to actor Michael Madsen, who got to the lot first -- "that bastard," said Hannah) is now green, believe it or not. It was at the press conference, sporting an alcohol conversion and proving that just about any vehicle (including the motorcycle they had on display) can run on ethanol with only minor modification to make it "flex fuel." Here's Hannah talking about alcohol fuel: David Blume, author of the book Alcohol Can be a Gas, was the host of the event at the Petersen Auto Museum, and he's an evangelist for alcohol fuel in many forms. On the roof of the Petersen, Blume, Hannah, Ed Begley, Jr. and Natural Capitalism author Hunter Lovins showed off an alcohol furnace (replacing fuel oil), an alcohol-burning barbecue and an alcohol Prius -- Begley's first one, converted on the spot by the man himself with a socket wrench and a pair of screwdrivers. Corn ethanol has challenges, but Blume thinks it gets a bum rap. He brings a wider vision to it, imagining a seamless loop in which alcohol is produced from corn, then what's left over -- so-called distiller's grain -- can be fed to animals or to a tank full of tilapia for that matter. Then the dirty fish water can be irrigation for vegetable crops. Archer Daniels Midland did this for many years, Blume said. Blume also says that, far from sparking a "food vs. fuel" squeeze, corn has actually been in surplus for the last three years. And that does seem to be borne out by agricultural reports. This year is shaping up as a record-breaker. Begley (who gave me a tour of his ultra-green home as seen on the show Living With Ed), Hannah and Lovins are all equal-opportunity alternative-fuel supporters. They like electric cars, biodiesel and plug-in hybrids, too. Blume is more of a one-fuel man, but he has a long history of making things work, and has gathered a devoted following in California for the fuel. He says that the state should soon have more than 60 new stations. The great thing about alcohol fuel is that it can be made domestically (Blume sells small stills) and offset the 60% of our oil that is currently imported from under "their" sand. Blume estimates that if American cars were converted to flex fuel and burned E85 ethanol, we could be over our imported oil addiction in a few years.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Marine's Mom: I Wanted So Much More Time - NBC San Diego Posted: 01 Oct 2009 02:06 PM PDT Sgt. Adam Bosley lost control of his motorcycle on State Route 125By TONY SHIN and MICHELLE WAYLANDUpdated 2:10 PM PDT, Thu, Oct 1, 2009
For years, service members have been dying on motorcycles at a dramatic rate. So, the US military set up a mandatory motorcycle safety program. Carla Wilson believes the training is saving lives. Unfortunately, her son wasn't one of them. "He just had that happy go lucky personality and always smiling and always upbeat," Wilson said. "He had so much more to do and I wanted so much more time with him. " She says her 29-year-old son, Sgt. Adam Bosley, lived his life to the fullest and there was one thing he loved to do. "He rode motorcycles pretty much all his life," Wilson said. On August 19, the Camp Pendleton based Marine was killed after losing control of his motorcycle on State Route 125. Carla says Adam had just bought the high-powered street bike a few days earlier and was getting lessons at Camp Pendleton's training course. "Probably a week after he was killed he was supposed to start the advanced training," Wilson said. In recent years, military motorcycle death rates began to climb at an alarming rate. The military began requiring service members to complete a motorcycle safety course which includes riding lessons, screening riders who display risky behaviors and organizing safe racing events. From Sept. 2007 to Sept. 2008 there were 124 military motorcycle deaths nationwide. The number dropped to 72 from 2008 to 2009. First Published: Oct 1, 2009 1:47 PM PDT This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Friday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Midnight Mayhem ... - Who Won Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:42 AM PDT Las Vegas Motor Speedway, The Strip at Thursday, October 1, 2009 Friday at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway: Midnight Mayhem Presented By MetroPCS by John Bisci LAS VEGAS -- Midnight Mayhem Presented By MetroPCS is The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's safe alternative to illegal street racing. The Strip at LVMS will present another edition of the popular Midnight Mayhem series Friday night at 7 p.m.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| West Arrives at Cavs' Camp - Hoops World Posted: 01 Oct 2009 12:11 PM PDT
Despite the disappointment that he hadnt uncovered a future UFC star, Allan went to work with (Glen) Davis. And there was no kid-glove treatment for the professional athlete. Though (John) Allan said his top priority always was to avoid injury, Davis was put through rigorous daily workouts. With a name like Big Baby, when I found out thats what he was called, I was a little surprised because he was all business, Allan said. He comes in here and he knows what I want him to do. When I tell him what to do, he does it. Theres no hesitation. He works hard, and he loves it, which helps. Davis had long been a fan of MMA. He decided to get involved in the sport over the summer after watching his girlfriend participate in amateur Muay Thai competitions. I love the UFC but I didnt really get into it like that, Davis said. But when I started watching her, and then I started to do it, then I was like, Oh man, this is crazy. I love this. After that it was just nonstop UFC - whos fighting, where is the fight, when am I training? It was just an unbelievable feeling. Though MMA is a violent sport, Davis understands that basketball is his No. 1 priority and he isnt about to step into the ring. Instead, he has taken to the grueling cardiovascular training MMA fighters endure. I kind of felt like, Oh man, basketball is hard, but when youre training for a fight, you have to go to a whole different level, Davis said. The training is so extreme. I thought I trained hard playing basketball, but when youre doing mixed martial arts, you have to train even harder.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Preview MotoGP Portuguese Round - Daily Telegraph Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:14 AM PDT Plastered across the specialist press were the headlines we'd all been dreading: James Toseland had lost his job. A couple of days ago the news was confirmed. James, 29 on Monday, is heading back to World Superbikes, to be replaced by the 25-year-old Superbike rider Ben Spies. The Texan's debut year in WSB has been spectacular, with multiple victories against experienced opposition despite a lack of prior knowledge about both his Yamaha R1 and the tracks, but the change still comes as a shock. Motorcycle factories run racing teams as marketing devices so to have Spies join another Texan, the venerable Colin Edwards, seems to demonstrates the importance of the USA as a sales territory to the Tech 3 Yamaha team. So why has the only Brit in MotoGP been cast to one side? Apart from the last race, when Edwards was torpedoed by another rider, James has only finished ahead of his team-mate once. It's an old adage in racing that the first person you've got to beat is the other guy in your garage. The time-sheets contain more evidence. Even if you discount the sport's top four riders and stick to what Ducati boss Livio Suppo calls "the human ones", Toseland's fastest race lap has been at least half a second off the pace, sometimes nearly two seconds. In top-flight racing that blink of an eye is significant enough to put your job on the line. Will Spies fare better? After all, he's yet to win a WSB title, whereas James has two. The evidence suggests he will be strong – last year he took two top 10 finishes despite limited testing time while standing in for Loris Capirossi at Suzuki. Make no mistake, the man whose arms-akimbo riding style lends him the nickname "Elbowz" will be fast. What the Toseland episode really highlights is that the elite class simply isn't big enough. Chris Vermeulen, Toni Elias and Alex de Angelis also look like they'll be out of MotoGP, but the fact is that modern GP bikes are so expensive to build, develop and run that we're lucky more teams haven't gone bust. I think the sport needs to look at its regulations even more radically than it has done, outlaw cost-prohibitive electronics (which have reduced the spectacle anyway) and encourage more bikes onto the grid. I'd rather MotoGP represented the pinnacle of racing, not the pinnacle of technology. What we need is fewer microchips and more donkeys. Cast your mind back to the last race at Misano and you'll recall that the shy and retiring Valentino Rossi mocked his own mistake in the previous outing by painting a donkey on his helmet, then celebrated on the top step of the podium while wearing a large pair of donkey ears. Three weeks on, the tone is more serious. "The championship is far from over" he said, ahead of this weekend's race in Portugal, and he's right. His team-mate Jorge Lorenzo is 30 points behind (at one stage the gap was 50) and won the Portuguese round last year, while Dani Pedrosa always seems to go well over Estoril's bumps. Then there's the return of Casey Stoner who, after a three-race sabbatical to recuperate from a mystery illness, must be itching to add a much-needed splash of Ducati red at the sharp end of the racing. With just four races left the battle is entering its final phase. Hold tight. Suzi Perry presents the Portuguese MotoGP race on Sunday at 12.30pm on BBC Two.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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