Re: [Biofuel] pump position problem

2006-04-21 Thread Mike McGinness
Jason  Katie,

It probably will not stay flooded once the pump starts up. A priming chamber
depends on having the chamber filled with fluid where a large part of the 
chamber
is lower than the inlet pipe connection. That way the chamber can not drain back
all of its contents back into the suction pipe. The chamber is then high enough
with respect to the pump impeller and impeller housing to keep the pump head /
impeller area flooded during pump and while the pump is off.

Mike McGinness

Jason  Katie wrote:

 couldnt you put a check valve in line before the pump, and use the pump
 chamber itself as a priming tank?
 - Original Message -
 From: Mike Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:50 AM
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] pump position problem

 I use a fairly crappy drill pump and prime it with a spot of SVO in
  several spots in my process
 
  Appal Energy wrote:
 
 Is there anotherh alternative? Can anytone help?
 
 
 
 Depends on how your pump is plumbed in. If you can, put a standpipe with a
 valve in front of the intake on the pump. You can charge (fill) the
 standpipe with whatever liquid is appropriate for whatever you're trying
 to pump and use that charge as a pump primer.
 
 Todd Swearingen
 
 
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
 Hello.
 
 I have a problem with my new processor. I asked the person who was
 selling
 it if it was self priming and he responded yes, it could even suck water
 
 
 from 6meters. Ofcourse I didnt believe him, but I hotught that it
 
 
 probabbly could manage 40 cm. Well it cant. And #305; have already
 mounted above the fluid level.
 
 I have to use a vaccum pump to pull the wvo in to the pump :(
 
 Is there anotherh alternative? Can anytone help?
 
 
 THank you in advance
 
 Teoman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rudtard Kipling is rolling is his grave but William Easterly probably
 approves of pretty much everything you've said.
 
 Michael Redler wrote:
 
 
 
 
 
 I just wanted to chime in here.
 
 Keith wrote:
 
 It reached a stage here where the list would not have
 survived unless we'd formulated the rules, which were already there,
 we didn't just make them up.
 
 It's also too common to see a reactionary restriction of expression,
 screening all posts before distribution (for example).
 
 This forum proves that a loose framework is very effective
 at maintaining individual freedoms while allowing it's membership to
 participate in maintaining continuity.
 
 Kim: I read some of your posts and couldn't help notice the
 similarities between your views and the ideology driving the White
 Man's Burden. Maybe it's time to rethink the ideals to which we, in
 the US, have been indoctrinated. Maybe it's a good time to question
 the perceived credibility and legacy left behind by people like
 McCarthy and accept the fact that it's not acceptable to steer the
 culture, economy and government of another country simply because you
 feel you're better.
 
 You wrote: Our right to determine the direction of our life today is
 unparalleled in human history.
 
 So, Babylon, Ancient Greece, etc. don't count. The Magna Carta was
 just a piece of paper (if I can borrow an expression from our
 president).
 
 There have been and are, better examples of democracy in human history
 than the republic we Americans pretend to push on others in the
 process of building an empire.
 
 Do some research on our Constitution and it's origins. It will lead
 you in a few directions - one of which is toward the Iroquois nation.
 Ask an Iroquois about their right to determine their life - if you
 can find one. You talk about the reassignment of land for the greater
 good but conveniently under emphasize the eradication of those people
 in the process of fulfilling that illusion.
 
 
 Mike
 
 
 */Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote:
 
Hello Kim
 
Greetings,
I do believe that many people on this list don't read real well.
 
I think you're relying on it. No doubt a new subject-title and
dumping all the evidence helps. The ones who disagree with you read
quite well though. The un-keyhole view is of Kim trying to backpedal
her way up a pedestal, in defiance of the laws of gravity and
 pedals.
 
I did say I was in favor of colonizing the stars, not the
 colonizing
that happened in past history and is happening today by the
corporate world.
 
Um, sorry, not so. In fact you were also criticised for the
colonising the stars bit, and you ignored that too. But for a lot of
forbearance you could have got the boot just for that, and much
besides. You should read the list rules again. They're there for a
reason. It reached a stage here where the list would not have
survived unless we'd formulated the rules, which were already there,
we didn't just make them up. They had to be put into a form that
people could be referred to and told to read and comply with when
they joined. If not no list any more 

Re: [Biofuel] You were saying?

2006-04-21 Thread Keith Addison
does this qualify as off topic?

Zeke just said nothing qualifies as off-topic:
http://snipurl.com/
[Biofuel] A little clarification

But what's it got to do with biofuels? Eg.:
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html#invis

Different subject? But can you be sure the thread won't go that way? 
In fact it just did. Anyway nothing would have done just as well.

Best

Keith


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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:31 PM
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  Okay, I wasn't going to go there  but since you did, a friend of a
 friend used The Who double album Tommy.  Good listening too...
 
  Was he double-jointed?
 
  I miss the album art.
 
  Keith
 
 
 fred
 
 On 4/20/06, bob allen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 yeah, a friend of a friend, certainly not me, says that cleaning pot on
 a CD jewel case is just too difficult...
 
 
 Fred Finch wrote:
   Ahh yes...  Back in the day when everyone had a turntable.
  
   Take off...  To the Great White North!!
  
   and
  
   The Twelve Days of Christmas.
  
   On a related note, I had to share with one of my student workers what
   an
   album was.  It seems the newest generation of kids are not familiar
   with
   such things as album art or liner notes or the fact that they are
   fragile.
  
   fred
  
   On 4/20/06, *Michael Redler*
   mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
   mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   It's from playing the Bob and Doug Mckenzie Christmas album over
   and
   over and
  
   :-)
  
   Mike
  
  
   */Mike Weaver mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/*
   wrote:
  
   I always wondered why you sound so funny when you talk...
 
  snip


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Re: [Biofuel] WVO sources and other stuff

2006-04-21 Thread Keith Addison
 ...I don't much
 care for the gentleman. Sod being polite about it, I wouldn't cross
 the street to piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire. Ahh, now I
 feel all better. :-)

 Best

 Keith


wow, that was unexpected... not unwarranted i admit, but definitely
unexpected.

:-)

Midori's outside talking to a guy who collects dead electronic gear 
for recycling. We gave him some dead gear, including a defunct PC 
someone gave us but it didn't work, which Midori referred to as the 
broken Windows. LOL! Is there any other kind?

Anyway, re Mr Gates, what do you want me to say, that I take it all 
back, I didn't really mean it, in fact I would cross the street to 
piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire?

Keith


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Re: [Biofuel] You were saying?

2006-04-21 Thread Keith Addison
On 4/20/06, Keith Addison 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:


Was he double-jointed?


No, he needed to re-hash his decisions daily though.

LOL! Heh... Can't think of a rejoinder, sorry, I'm getting too old 
for all this, it's high time they put me out to grass.

fred

BTW, happy 4/20  (or 4/21 for keith)  I forgot it is tomorrow there already.

Right, it's always tomorrow here already, no wonder I never get 
anything done. Thanks Fred, and the same to you, though I must admit 
I don't know what it's for. But who needs a good reason, happy happy!

Keith


I miss the album art.

Keith


 fred
 
 On 4/20/06, bob allen 
mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
rg[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 yeah, a friend of a friend, certainly not me, says that cleaning pot on
 a CD jewel case is just too difficult...
 
 
 Fred Finch wrote:
   Ahh yes...  Back in the day when everyone had a turntable.
  
   Take off...  To the Great White North!!
  
   and
  
   The Twelve Days of Christmas.
  
   On a related note, I had to share with one of my student workers what an
   album was.  It seems the newest generation of kids are not familiar with
   such things as album art or liner notes or the fact that they 
are fragile.
  
   fred
  
   On 4/20/06, *Michael Redler* 
mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
ahoo.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   mailto:mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
  
   It's from playing the Bob and Doug Mckenzie Christmas album over and
   over and
  
   :-)
  
   Mike
  
  
   */Mike Weaver 
mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:mailto:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]ma 
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]/*
   wrote:
  
   I always wondered why you sound so funny when you talk...

snip


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Re: [Biofuel] sustainable biodiesel from Casto : Big is not beautiful, small is more sustainable

2006-04-21 Thread pan ruti
 Dear Bob and Keith I am very sorry for the late reply , not able to be as quick as KEITHI interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seed cake is exposed to the reaction.  Here in Brazil nobody like to use Methanol , yes you are correct that the crushed seed is used as feed stock.The mixture of this two methanol and ethanol can be better, but the process for the big scale use methanol , and there is also effort to make the carbohydrate to make ethanol in future.sdPannirselvam bob allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   By using one step  simultaneous  extraction and esterification , the
 patented process use crushed seeds  to make four products , the BioD , the glycerol , the protein, carbohydrate that seem to deintoxicated for animal feed  is now being   scaled up to big pilot plant.I interpreted this to mean that the crushed seeds are subjected to the alkali catalyst/methanol hence the seedcake is exposed to the reaction.   I've seen papers other papers discuss simultaneous extraction/reaction with soya bean flakes. the problem was that much more methanol is need to extract the oil during the processing into biodiesel, partly due to the moisture content of the beans.Keith Addison wrote: Ricin is a protein which would be denatured by the reaction conditions.  Denaturation just means changing the shape of the protein, thus inactivating it.   Same as hard boiling an egg more or less.  Thanks Bob. But I think the ricin
 doesn't get into the oil, it's in  the husk, and thus in the seedcake.  I see James Duke says: "Although it is highly toxic due to the ricin,  a method of detoxicating the meal has now been found, so that it can  safely be fed to livestock." Ricinus communis, "Handbook of Energy Crops", James A. Duke, 1983 http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Ricinus_communis.html  Maybe they just hard-boil the seedcake.Re the high viscosity:Brazil has 20 years of good research reports about castor oil use as biofuel , which we have the acess .One main problem with castor oil BioD is the viscosity that can be easily solved. That seems to be the main problem. Castor oil is 100 times more viscous than petro-diesel. Castor oil biodiesel is less viscous
 than the straight oil, but several references say it is still higher than the national standards specification limits. If there is an easy way to make it less viscous or to solve the problem that would be valuable to know. Do you have any further information on this? This is quite interesting on how castor oil works as a lubricant and why it's different to other oils: http://www.georgiacombat.com/CASTOR_OIL.htm CASTOR OIL  Castor oil has good lubricity, I wonder if castor oil biodiesel have  better lubricity than others. Maybe that could offset the viscosity  problem. More and more places are following the French and specifying  biodiesel as a lubrication additive in LS diesel fuel. If it had  better lubricity you'd need to use less, and the high
 viscosity  wouldn't matter at such a low percentage. Which is where I grind to a  halt because the difference between lubricity and viscosity isn't  that clear, or at least not to me, especially when you add high  temperatures. Anyone know better?  Best  Keith  ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org  Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html  Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/-- Bob Allenhttp://ozarker.org/bob"Science is what we have learned
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Re: [Biofuel] Organic Biophonics and Hydo gardening

2006-04-21 Thread pan ruti
Evergreen Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err...not sure where all that's coming from.I'll tell you why hydro's the way for me, since apparently it's sohorrible or whatever.  From hydroponic gardens you can go to ecological bio phonics organic system. Thus we are making system study on  biosystem integration , to do first thermophilic aerobic composting , then anaerobic bio digestion , then algae , which goes to fish and prawn pond , then this sludge from this used as gravel bed bio phonics organic gardening . After study of 3 years
 about hydroponics system , we have made a longer journey and finlay came to the same point what Keith point outs that we can not think only of fertilizer, there need to be soil based substrate , not the comercial one , as the plant needs are very complex and the plant growth is not limited to substarate , nutients , but there is living biosystem , ecology of this system tooMicrobiological ecology of the soil can help us , why we need eliminate this small tiny bacterial , fungus insect system ,rather let us combine the hydro system to benefit this natural organic system with fish and other wastes. Thus this new ecofriendly system is based both on the Hydro system ,but do keep the natural soil based substrate too.My yard is entirely surrounded on all sides by overhead vegetation. Noportion of my yard gets more than 2-3 hours of
 direct sun a day, sohydro lets me use my roof. Sure, I could concoct some elaborate systemto carry 50lb containers of soil to my roof just so I could have toworry about the rotting effects it would have on my roof, or I couldhave some 4 lb containers in a series.Can be good one where land is problemsAs for not sustainable, I was just talking to a fellow the other daywho uses seaweed and urine as his only 2 nutrients, growing tomatoesand basil in the cement wasteland that is his lot in whatever majorurban metropolitan area he has to call him own. Everybody keepstelling him it's not going to work, and he keeps harvesting aridiculous amount of fruit every year.Cow urine and wastes recycling are always practiced in rural areas in India and the most Asiatic countries , making more sustainable
 systemWhile I'm sure you understand that he could indeed build a planter inthe same space, you also understand that the "dirt" method involvesremoving additional topsoil from some other location, bringing itwhere he lives, and replacing it/fertilizing it every year and/ordiscarding it. How that's any more "sustainable" than organic hydro, Idon't understand. to make organic hydro one need also understand ecological bio systems . Here in Brazil, sugarcane based substrate , hydro system to make corn seed fast growing system has been found to be successful in demonstration level. When they made in big scale , several cows that were taking this hydro based beautiful green feed has died. Surely the microbial infection of this hydro system can be monitored , controlled , but not a sustainable system , yet .Now no more hydro system here even though there is need for the same
 because we are in dry landActually, much like JTF has international projects to keep people fed,there's a large aquaponics group that helps areas of dense populationw/ no or poor soil to have a very inexpensive, non-motorized, systemof food production vis-a-vis the fish and vegetables grown in the samelocation. I agree with you about the fish and vegetable system , but the use of only the hidro , but rather ecologically sound biophonics system need to designed based on nature , the natural way the plant has choosen adopted is the soil.For the engineer or businees people , it is not easy to undesrtand the ecology as this more comlex , not also the biophonic system which is an advanced topics in relation with hidro , need sound ecological engineering basicsAnyway, had I 15 acres to farm on, I wouldn't use hydro or evenadvocate
 it. However, I don't. There are several other benefits too,like handicapped accessibility and whatnot. And...as for "propping upthe plant in the soil", sure, some systems involve a growth medium,which for the most part are non-composted organic materials, but thereare plenty of other systems that don't use any growth media @ all,like NFT and deep water culture.You'll probably take offense to this, but you seem to read way toomuch into my posts, as in you assume too much. You're probablythinking I'm all about grow lights and grow rooms and what not. Noway! I just like summer based, outdoor systems. I can grow 10 tomatoesin just over 27 square feet, and if I feel like moving inside when itgets cold, I can propogage/clone those tomatoes into infinity simplyby taking cuttings and rooting them in water. My water usage is about1 gallon per week per tomato, my nutrient use is 1lb per 100 gallonsof water, and since I have
 full control over the substrata I have 0worry about fungi, root bugs, etc, and a simple once a weekvinegar/water mix keeps the foliar bugs at bay. I cannot see 

Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Gian


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Subject:[Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

http://qconline.com/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=displayid=284986

check this, if it doesnt give you the impression that the forces of law are
bad i dont know what will.


Shame on the passerby whose idea of rendering aid is to make one phone call
and then leave the scene.


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[Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US

2006-04-21 Thread Anthony Austin
I grew up in the 40s  when people saved cans and papers and grease for the
war effort, gasoline was rationed, and the tires you had in 1941 had to last
you until the war was over...  Those who died in Europe and the Pacific
would be rolling in their graves if they could see the greedy, I'm
entitled society we are today and the rotten spoiled child we have in the
presidency...  The country is bankrupt - financially and morally.  A decent
government would call for a 55 mps speed limit, 50 MPG (at least) vehicles,
more public transportation, and a revitalization of the OPA where oil prices
are concerned.  The spot market should be shut down...Tony Austin



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Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

2006-04-21 Thread Randall
Could you cut and paste the article?  I do not like signing up on more 
websites than is necessary.

Thanks!

Randall
Charlotte, NC

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 http://qconline.com/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=displayid=284986

 check this, if it doesnt give you the impression that the forces of law 
 are
 bad i dont know what will.


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Re: [Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US

2006-04-21 Thread Chip Mefford
Anthony Austin wrote:
 I grew up in the 40s  when people saved cans and papers and grease for the
 war effort, gasoline was rationed, and the tires you had in 1941 had to last
 you until the war was over...  Those who died in Europe and the Pacific
 would be rolling in their graves if they could see the greedy, I'm
 entitled society we are today and the rotten spoiled child we have in the
 presidency...  The country is bankrupt - financially and morally.  A decent
 government would call for a 55 mps speed limit, 50 MPG (at least) vehicles,
 more public transportation, and a revitalization of the OPA where oil prices
 are concerned.  The spot market should be shut down...Tony Austin


30 years ago, that exactly the direction we the people were headed.

The came Reagan.

-The End.


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Re: [Biofuel] odd heat source

2006-04-21 Thread Tom Irwin




Hi All,

If the solid waste comes in mixed and not with the organics source separted they can be contaminated by anything that was in the original solid waste. Heavy metal contamination comes to mind, particularly mercury, lead and zinc. I would also ask about the energy source for drying and pelletizing the solid waste. That could make it a zero sum or negative sum proposition. Organics in a solid waste stream can be very wet. Is there any penalties in the contract if 60 tons of pellets are not delivered? 

Tom


From: Jason  Katie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.orgSent: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:19:33 -0300Subject: [Biofuel] odd heat sourcedoes this make good sense? yea it has its merits, but i can forsee some problems. any opinions or ideas?http://qconline.com/qcnews/archives/qco/sections.cgi?prcss=displayid=284865April 19, 2006 1:07 PMBiodiesel plant to use trash as fuelMARCUS, Iowa (AP) -- One man's trash is another man's -- energy source?Soy Energy, a company that plans to build and operate the plant, will use pellets of biomass from a local landfill as its primary source of steam and thermal energy, said Mark Buschkamp, executive director of Cherokee Area Economic Development.Experts say trash is a novel source of energy for a biofuels refinery. Company officials believe using biomass will offset the high costs of natural gas.The biomass will come from Cherokee County Solid Waste, a three-county landfill near Cherokee, Buschkamp said.The landfill will build a facility to collect materials, such as paper, cardboard and foods, which will be turned into pellets for use by Soy Energy.The plant will require 60 tons of pellets a day.Construction on the plant, to be located on 37 acres between Marcus and Cleghorn in northwest Iowa, is expected to begin by the end of the year with a planned opening for the end of 2007.An announcement on the $52 million investor-owned project was expected Wednesday.Plans also include construction of a soybean-crushing plant, expected to be completed by 2010.-- Information from: The Des Moines Register, http://www.desmoinesregister.com___Biofuel mailing listBiofuel@sustainablelists.orghttp://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.orgBiofuel at Journey to Forever:http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.htmlSearch the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages):http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/



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Re: [Biofuel] Thoughts on the Bush Admninistation

2006-04-21 Thread Zeke Yewdall
I don't agree that government is categorically all bad.  In theory
government could be good because it protects you from other entities
so large than only the government can protect you from them -- like
corporations.  However, in the current regime of deregulation and
capitalism-is-god, government has given up the one thing it could do
for me, so perhaps in this case I'd agree...

On 4/20/06, Jason  Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 i dont believe the gov't is all bad, i can damn near guarantee its all bad.
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  No one wants to believe their government is all bad.
 
  Respectfully,
  Marilyn
 
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Re: [Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US

2006-04-21 Thread Terry Dyck
Anthony Austin writes a very interesting article about the 1940's.  It is 
useful to look at the past to make good changes for the future.  If drastic 
conservation was manatory in the 40's we may have to repeat that effort to 
save the future.  If we do not switch to alternative energy in the next 5 
years we make have to ban the use of burning fossil fuels some day just to 
insure that humans survive on this planet.

Terry Dyck


From: Anthony Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Subject: [Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:52:27 -0400

I grew up in the 40s  when people saved cans and papers and grease for the
war effort, gasoline was rationed, and the tires you had in 1941 had to 
last
you until the war was over...  Those who died in Europe and the Pacific
would be rolling in their graves if they could see the greedy, I'm
entitled society we are today and the rotten spoiled child we have in the
presidency...  The country is bankrupt - financially and morally.  A decent
government would call for a 55 mps speed limit, 50 MPG (at least) vehicles,
more public transportation, and a revitalization of the OPA where oil 
prices
are concerned.  The spot market should be shut down...Tony Austin



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Re: [Biofuel] WVO sources and other stuff

2006-04-21 Thread Jason Katie
nah, i dont blame you for saying it, i just couldnt imagine you putting it 
to writing until you actually did it. one of those shocking things, like 
hearing your mother say she likes rap music or something.

- Original Message - 
From: Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] WVO sources and other stuff


 ...I don't much
 care for the gentleman. Sod being polite about it, I wouldn't cross
 the street to piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire. Ahh, now I
 feel all better. :-)

 Best

 Keith


wow, that was unexpected... not unwarranted i admit, but definitely
unexpected.

 :-)

 Midori's outside talking to a guy who collects dead electronic gear
 for recycling. We gave him some dead gear, including a defunct PC
 someone gave us but it didn't work, which Midori referred to as the
 broken Windows. LOL! Is there any other kind?

 Anyway, re Mr Gates, what do you want me to say, that I take it all
 back, I didn't really mean it, in fact I would cross the street to
 piss in his mouth if his teeth were on fire?

 Keith


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Re: [Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US

2006-04-21 Thread Jason Katie
the U.S. of A.
(remember this day)

one foot in the gutter, one foot in the grave.
no chance for the poor, no hope for the brave,
the wicked shall rest, the weak will be prey.
the country is dying, remember this day.

the bankers, they rule us, while small children beg,
business is law, while we have nary a leg.
we can't live like this, this isn't the way,
our country is dying, remember this day.

the world at large hates me, because of my flag,
and yet I see it's worth no more than a rag.
everything's backwards, what can i say?
my country is dying, remember this day.

a rare moment ,that, when i can spout something like this, my imagination 
has faded over the years.
jason

- Original Message - 
From: Anthony Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 4:52 AM
Subject: [Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US


I grew up in the 40s  when people saved cans and papers and grease for the
 war effort, gasoline was rationed, and the tires you had in 1941 had to 
 last
 you until the war was over...  Those who died in Europe and the Pacific
 would be rolling in their graves if they could see the greedy, I'm
 entitled society we are today and the rotten spoiled child we have in the
 presidency...  The country is bankrupt - financially and morally.  A 
 decent
 government would call for a 55 mps speed limit, 50 MPG (at least) 
 vehicles,
 more public transportation, and a revitalization of the OPA where oil 
 prices
 are concerned.  The spot market should be shut down...Tony Austin



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Re: [Biofuel] Bush and the current state of the US

2006-04-21 Thread Zeke Yewdall
Didn't you hear?  Saving resources for the war effort is out of date. 
It's been replaced by simpler and cleaner actions such as simply
putting a yellow ribbon on your giant SUV now.

I wasn't around in the 40's, but it does seem like people took war
alot more seriously then, and actually knew what it meant to be a
nation at war, unlike today.

On 4/21/06, Anthony Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I grew up in the 40s  when people saved cans and papers and grease for the
 war effort, gasoline was rationed, and the tires you had in 1941 had to last
 you until the war was over...  Those who died in Europe and the Pacific
 would be rolling in their graves if they could see the greedy, I'm
 entitled society we are today and the rotten spoiled child we have in the
 presidency...  The country is bankrupt - financially and morally.  A decent
 government would call for a 55 mps speed limit, 50 MPG (at least) vehicles,
 more public transportation, and a revitalization of the OPA where oil prices
 are concerned.  The spot market should be shut down...Tony Austin



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[Biofuel] List Test

2006-04-21 Thread Jeromie Reeves
Just double checking a new config

Jeromie

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Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

2006-04-21 Thread Jason Katie

sorry, i never considered that someone would lock archives...
   kind of defeats the purpose.

   April 20, 2006; 12:15 p.m.

   High court rules against Hays family
   Comment on this article

   By Stephanie Sievers, Springfield bureau

 Photo: Terry Herbig
 This stretch of road along U.S. 150 is the area where the 
body of Doris Hayes, Orion, was discovered. She was found outside her car, 
which had run off the road and into a deep ravine on the east side of U.S. 
150, about a mile and a half south of Coal Valley.

 More photos from this shoot

 Graphic: Submitted
 Doris Hays


   SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with local 
law enforcement, ruling today they were immune from liability even though 
they failed to come to the aid of Doris Hays, an Orion woman who died after 
a car accident.


   The 68-year-old woman died in 2002 after she wrecked her car on 
U.S. 150 near the Henry/Rock Island county line. A passerby called for help 
and the message was relayed to multiple law enforcement agencies, but no 
help ever arrived. Hays' body wasn't found until three days later.


   Her sister, Mary DeSmet, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against 
a number of defendants, including Rock Island County and Sheriff Michael 
Grchan, Henry County and Sheriff Gilbert Cady, Orion, Moline and East 
Moline. The state's highest court agreed with lower courts that the lawsuit 
should be dismissed.


   The court found that although people have a right to expect 
police to respond to such a situation, authorities weren't liable under the 
Tort Immunity Act, which protects governmental entities and employees from 
lawsuits.


   There is an exception for willful and wanton behavior, but since 
law enforcement never responded or tried to enforce the law, that exception 
didn't apply in this case, wrote Justice Lloyd Karmeier, who penned the 
majority opinion.




   Ms. Hays' family appealed to the state's highest court after 
lower-level courts threw out the case on the grounds that governmental 
entities and employees were protected against the lawsuit by the Tort 
Immunity Act.


   Michael Rathsack, the appellate attorney for the family, said 
that, while lawmakers wanted to protect such groups from legal liability, 
the Hays case probably isn't what they had in mind.


   'I don't think the legislature ever thought that somebody would 
call and they would say, 'We'll come,' and they don't come. That's the 
problem. We're trying to look at a statute that was never designed to 
address the situation,' he said.


   Law enforcement is granted fairly broad lawsuit protection even 
when it fails to provide adequate service. Mr. Rathsack was asking the 
Illinois Supreme Court to decide if that immunity should cover providing no 
service at all.


   Robert Noe, a Moline attorney representing Rock Island County, 
Sheriff Grchan and emergency services dispatcher Myrtle DeWitte, argued that 
no police response is the same as an inadequate response, which is 
protected.


   He also said that, by the time the call was relayed to Rock 
Island County, dispatchers were only told that a car was in a ditch.







 Posted online: April 20, 2006 9:30 PM
 Print publication date: April 21, 2006

 Illinois Supreme Courts rules in favor of law enforecement in Hays' 
suit

 By Stephanie Sievers, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with local law 
enforcement, ruling Thursday they were immune from liability even though 
they failed to come to the aid of Doris Hays, an Orion woman who died 
following a car accident.


 The 68-year-old woman died in 2002 after she wrecked her car on U.S. 
150 near the Henry/Rock Island county line. A passerby called for help and 
the message was relayed to multiple law enforcement agencies, but no help 
ever arrived. Hays' body wasn't found until three days later.


 Her sister, Mary DeSmet, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against a 
number of defendants, including Rock Island County and Sheriff Michael 
Grchan, Henry County and Sheriff Gilbert Cady, Orion and village clerk Lori 
Sampson, Moline and East Moline. The state's highest court agreed with lower 
courts that the lawsuit should be dismissed.


 The court found that although people have a right to expect police to 
respond to such a situation, authorities weren't liable under the Tort 
Immunity Act, which protects governmental entities and employees from 
lawsuits.


 There is an exception for willful and wanton behavior, but since law 
enforcement never responded or tried to enforce the law, that exception 
didn't apply in this case, wrote Justice Lloyd Karmeier, who penned the 
majority opinion.


 Mrs. DeSmet knew her case had a 50/50 chance of 

Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Gian
Once again I repeat myself, this time with the transcript attached to keep
anyone who cares on track.

Did the person who called in the accident rightly feel that rendering aid
only consists of placing a phone call (perhaps one not totally clear as to
the actual circumstances) and then driving off as a morally correct action?
What in the phrase rendering aid was not understood?  If you were in a
wreck and someone with a cell phone in hand asked if they could help and you
said sure.  Then they said  I'll call 911, but see-ya, good luck, would
you feel good?  Would you do this to someone in need and still feel good
about yourself.

Sure, the local community has a deeper pocket than the AH who drove off, so
there is where to try and sue.  Any successful lawyer will advise you of
that.  But blame the marginally paid 911 operators with (possibly) poor
information?  Get real on who is negligent.

Michael
... and this really pisses me off.  Hate the establishment, yet blame them
when we (a supposed community) personally fail.  Time to grow-up folks!

 -Original Message-
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  On Behalf Of Jason  Katie
Sent:   Friday, April 21, 2006 8:14 PM
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Subject:Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

  File: death10a.gif   File: haysd.jpggraphic=1   File:
ATT00216.txt  sorry, i never considered that someone would lock
archives...
kind of defeats the purpose.

April 20, 2006; 12:15 p.m.

High court rules against Hays family
Comment on this article

By Stephanie Sievers, Springfield bureau

  Photo: Terry Herbig
  This stretch of road along U.S. 150 is the area where the
body of Doris Hayes, Orion, was discovered. She was found outside her car,
which had run off the road and into a deep ravine on the east side of U.S.
150, about a mile and a half south of Coal Valley.
  More photos from this shoot

  Graphic: Submitted
  Doris Hays


SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with local
law enforcement, ruling today they were immune from liability even though
they failed to come to the aid of Doris Hays, an Orion woman who died after
a car accident.

The 68-year-old woman died in 2002 after she wrecked her car on
U.S. 150 near the Henry/Rock Island county line. A passerby called for help
and the message was relayed to multiple law enforcement agencies, but no
help ever arrived. Hays' body wasn't found until three days later.

Her sister, Mary DeSmet, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against
a number of defendants, including Rock Island County and Sheriff Michael
Grchan, Henry County and Sheriff Gilbert Cady, Orion, Moline and East
Moline. The state's highest court agreed with lower courts that the lawsuit
should be dismissed.

The court found that although people have a right to expect
police to respond to such a situation, authorities weren't liable under the
Tort Immunity Act, which protects governmental entities and employees from
lawsuits.

There is an exception for willful and wanton behavior, but since
law enforcement never responded or tried to enforce the law, that exception
didn't apply in this case, wrote Justice Lloyd Karmeier, who penned the
majority opinion.



Ms. Hays' family appealed to the state's highest court after
lower-level courts threw out the case on the grounds that governmental
entities and employees were protected against the lawsuit by the Tort
Immunity Act.

Michael Rathsack, the appellate attorney for the family, said
that, while lawmakers wanted to protect such groups from legal liability,
the Hays case probably isn't what they had in mind.

'I don't think the legislature ever thought that somebody would
call and they would say, 'We'll come,' and they don't come. That's the
problem. We're trying to look at a statute that was never designed to
address the situation,' he said.

Law enforcement is granted fairly broad lawsuit protection even
when it fails to provide adequate service. Mr. Rathsack was asking the
Illinois Supreme Court to decide if that immunity should cover providing no
service at all.

Robert Noe, a Moline attorney representing Rock Island County,
Sheriff Grchan and emergency services dispatcher Myrtle DeWitte, argued that
no police response is the same as an inadequate response, which is
protected.

He also said that, by the time the call was relayed to Rock
Island County, dispatchers were only told that a car was in a ditch.






  Posted online: April 20, 2006 9:30 PM
  Print publication date: April 21, 2006

  Illinois Supreme Courts rules in favor of law enforecement in Hays'
suit
  By Stephanie Sievers, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Supreme Court has 

Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

2006-04-21 Thread Jason Katie
ok i understand your point about the jackhole who drove off, but even so, 
the authorities were called, and didn't even deign to answer. it is still 
their sworn duty to serve and protect, and unless there was something 
inherently evil about coming to this person's aid, i say they shirked their 
protection directive by a fairly wide margin. and i know a couple rock 
island dispatch operators personally, and it is standard to page EVERYBODY 
in an uncertain situation, no exceptions.

- Original Message - 
From: Michael Gian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless


 Once again I repeat myself, this time with the transcript attached to keep
 anyone who cares on track.

 Did the person who called in the accident rightly feel that rendering aid
 only consists of placing a phone call (perhaps one not totally clear as to
 the actual circumstances) and then driving off as a morally correct 
 action?
 What in the phrase rendering aid was not understood?  If you were in a
 wreck and someone with a cell phone in hand asked if they could help and 
 you
 said sure.  Then they said  I'll call 911, but see-ya, good luck, 
 would
 you feel good?  Would you do this to someone in need and still feel good
 about yourself.

 Sure, the local community has a deeper pocket than the AH who drove off, 
 so
 there is where to try and sue.  Any successful lawyer will advise you of
 that.  But blame the marginally paid 911 operators with (possibly) poor
 information?  Get real on who is negligent.

 Michael
 ... and this really pisses me off.  Hate the establishment, yet blame them
 when we (a supposed community) personally fail.  Time to grow-up folks!

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  On Behalf Of Jason  Katie
 Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 8:14 PM
 To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] I always new they were worthless

  File: death10a.gif   File: haysd.jpggraphic=1   File:
 ATT00216.txt  sorry, i never considered that someone would lock
 archives...
kind of defeats the purpose.

April 20, 2006; 12:15 p.m.

High court rules against Hays family
Comment on this article

By Stephanie Sievers, Springfield bureau

  Photo: Terry Herbig
  This stretch of road along U.S. 150 is the area where the
 body of Doris Hayes, Orion, was discovered. She was found outside her car,
 which had run off the road and into a deep ravine on the east side of U.S.
 150, about a mile and a half south of Coal Valley.
  More photos from this shoot

  Graphic: Submitted
  Doris Hays


SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court has sided with local
 law enforcement, ruling today they were immune from liability even though
 they failed to come to the aid of Doris Hays, an Orion woman who died 
 after
 a car accident.

The 68-year-old woman died in 2002 after she wrecked her car on
 U.S. 150 near the Henry/Rock Island county line. A passerby called for 
 help
 and the message was relayed to multiple law enforcement agencies, but no
 help ever arrived. Hays' body wasn't found until three days later.

Her sister, Mary DeSmet, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against
 a number of defendants, including Rock Island County and Sheriff Michael
 Grchan, Henry County and Sheriff Gilbert Cady, Orion, Moline and East
 Moline. The state's highest court agreed with lower courts that the 
 lawsuit
 should be dismissed.

The court found that although people have a right to expect
 police to respond to such a situation, authorities weren't liable under 
 the
 Tort Immunity Act, which protects governmental entities and employees from
 lawsuits.

There is an exception for willful and wanton behavior, but 
 since
 law enforcement never responded or tried to enforce the law, that 
 exception
 didn't apply in this case, wrote Justice Lloyd Karmeier, who penned the
 majority opinion.



Ms. Hays' family appealed to the state's highest court after
 lower-level courts threw out the case on the grounds that governmental
 entities and employees were protected against the lawsuit by the Tort
 Immunity Act.

Michael Rathsack, the appellate attorney for the family, said
 that, while lawmakers wanted to protect such groups from legal liability,
 the Hays case probably isn't what they had in mind.

'I don't think the legislature ever thought that somebody would
 call and they would say, 'We'll come,' and they don't come. That's the
 problem. We're trying to look at a statute that was never designed to
 address the situation,' he said.

Law enforcement is granted fairly broad lawsuit protection even
 when it fails to provide adequate service. Mr. Rathsack was asking the

Re: [Biofuel] A little (more) clarification

2006-04-21 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Bob

Hi Keith,
   I'm sure you misunderstood the thread. I went back and had a
look. It definitely says a little more clarification. You didn't just
reply, you swamped me with several hours reading and chasing of urls linked
to urls linked to... :)   Anyway, you get the picture.

:-) What did that guy say? I'd have written you a shorter letter but 
I didn't have the time.

Knocked out by the revelation of your family connection to Groote Schuur.
I'd be eating my heart out if it were me.

I didn't want what would have come with it. I'd probably just have 
sold it like Abraham did and mooched off anyway, and left nothing for 
the descendants, nor any descendants not to leave it to either.

As it was I found the house and
garden highly evocative, soaked in an ambience of something not quite
definable other than the very powerful feel that real people had coped with
some very real and major issues there.
An item I didn't include in my last post was the Nat Party junket at the
house which featured the very public release of another of those glossy
spindoctoring brochures about South Africa. The Minister of Information
(yes, the very same who presided over the Information scandal)

Connie Mulder? Sounds more like Eschel Rhoodie, but he was the 
Secretary not the Minister. Anyway...

decided to
make it a big event with foreign and local press, plus as many members of
the cabinet and their wives as he could assemble.
He chose the main hall at Groote Schuur, lined it with the notables, placed
we scruffier sprigs of the Fourth Estate furthest from the bar and launched
into his spin. My attention wandered slightly. Something at the edge of my
peripheral vision was bothering me.
I focused. It was Cecil himself, in that famous Cape painting, staring down
from the wall at the far end. He was looking directly at the speaker's back
with such an expression of outrage that I snorted loudly, nudged the journo
next to me who passed on the joke. Soon half the press corp was snorting and
giggling, so much so that the Speaker stopped and stared us into silence. I
quickly shot a pic with a vague idea of working a satirical angle into the
story.
I kid you not, when the darkroom boys later send the pic down to the
newsroom there was none of the quality my imagination had imbued. Rhodes was
not even looking at the speaker and his expression was as lugubrious as
ever. So much for mindset.

The camera lied. Nice story, thanks.

Thanks for the Orwell piece, some interesting points raised though I've
always thought if he'd got himself laid more we could have been spared his
excursions into literary criticism.

I like his criticism. It must be 40 years since I first read that 
book, I think it's lasted well. I share Orwell's views on Kipling.

He made one important point about
Kipling's work: while the Rudyards have long ceased from Kipling and the
Haggards ride no more his epigrammatic phrases still sprinkle the language
while the critics have been forgotten.

Well, Orwell and Eliot haven't been forgotten. Didn't you agree with 
what Orwell said about Kipling's written-in working-class accents?

I wouldn't put Rider Haggard in the same box as Kipling. They were 
friends, and both were creatures of empire and of their times, but it 
doesn't go much further than that. I don't think Kipling's work was 
admired by Jung as was Haggard's, for instance, nor did Kipling write 
a masterly account of rural England and agriculture as did Haggard, 
nor could he have. Haggard has depths that aren't found in Kipling, 
and he wasn't an apologist. Kipling has faded more than Haggard has. 
Haggard hasn't really faded such a lot. A colonial administrator in 
South Africa 120 years ago who held strong views that blacks should 
rule themselves has some staying power. Quite a lot of Haggard has 
staying power, for quite a wide range of reasons. With Kipling, as 
Orwell says, it's mostly just children's books and the free fatty 
phrases that remain, and many of the phrases might as well have been 
written by Anon. I think Kipling's views and his world are as dated 
as the Pears Soap ad. You have to laugh at it now but it probably 
seemed perfectly normal and virtuous to Kipling. Give them Empire and 
Pears Soap, it's for their own good whether they like it or not. (Not 
to mention the Great Unwashed.) Empire and Soap might be an evolution 
of the Sword and the Bible, or just the Sword, but it hardly points 
the way forward, we've moved on since then even if some of our 
governments haven't.

Africa renewed [Haggard's] faith in a world beyond conventional 
religion, and gave him a sense of morality greater than the 
narrow-minded White man's burden Enlightenment common-place, so 
pervasive among colonial writers. Instead in Haggard's works it is 
the white man who is in need of ministering and Africa that provides 
the enlightenment. - John Senior, Rhodes University, 1996.

If that seems improbable, have you read Kurt Vonnegut's report from 

[Biofuel] the authorities are most of our problems

2006-04-21 Thread Jason Katie
all of the news clips here are from the last 5 years, and i have selected 
the articles with the most multi-paper repeats so these are not made up, 
or doctored, they can be searched and confirmed.
police cause more trouble than they solve, and do not deserve to work in the 
public interest if they are going to be beating citizens like this.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/12/16/miami_police/index.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/wto-n19.shtml

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/1574148.php

http://www.greens.org.nz/searchdocs/PR8169.html 


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