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Posted 30 August 2010 - 02:05 AM
It needs to be fast so all loyale and there brothers are out. It needs to be light so all station wagons are out. I want it to be awd. I need it to last a constant 24 hours.
So im thinking 90-94 subaru legacy awd 5 speed. It doesnt need to look good it just needs to run and drive. It will be gutted and all glass removed most likely. If you can think up of any other car i would be interested in hearing what you had to say.
Posted 30 August 2010 - 02:21 AM
Other than that I'd put an EJ swapped DL in.
Posted 30 August 2010 - 06:04 AM
this going to be a set road course then?
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i found your turbo leg and its nearby. and cheap and perfect......
Posted 30 August 2010 - 05:01 PM
Sounds fun as hell, its in Joliet right? you could pick up a Legacy here in WI for like $300 that might just need a clutch or a HG.
Posted 30 August 2010 - 11:41 PM
With that said I would just go for a legacy since you said you want the awd and an EJ. It won't be as light as an EA car but it will be much easier for you. Just gut it as much as you can. A lot of weight can be saved from removing everything from the doors and just welding them shut. you will also have much better suspension and braking options for a legacy too. An Impreza would be the best but it's very hard to find one for under $500.
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xt- 250 bucks needs hg
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I understand that if your car looks like it might be worth more than $500 the crowd can vote to have it destroyed. Awesome.
This is true, but the last few races I was in no one got enough votes to get crushed. It's mostly you being a idiot and pissing people off that gets you voted for the crusher.
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You don't have to be a woman to celebrate International Women's Day. In fact, you don't have to be an international woman - those of us who don't travel much are, amazingly, still included.
And here at Huffington Post UK Comedy, we are celebrating funny women in particular. Below are just a handful of funny quotes from some of our favourite women. Quotes about being women, being themselves, being with men, being without men, wearing make-up, not playing football... and so much more.
Funny ladies of the past, present and future: we salute you (and then step into a bucket and hit our head on a mop handle).

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Once upon a time collecting coins was a beloved hobby that a great many people liked to do. Before the art of scrapbooking became big, coin collecting (numismatics) was the choice for those who wanted an activity to do during their leisure time that would provide pure entertainment.
Scrapbooking for Beginners!
When it comes to the arts & crafts/hobby world, there is one that has climbed the charts of popularity over the past few years. Scrapbooking calls out to a variety of people who, let's face it, are truly sick and tired of cellphones clicking away, yet never producing PAPER copies of your grandchild's photos. I realize that these electronic photos are simpler to use as backgrounds on laptops and backgrounds on the cellphones themselves, but they take away from the grandmother who wants to carry those PAPER copies in her purse to show off to others. But…I digress.
Herping: A Nature Activity That's Tipping the "Scales"
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DENVER — — It's one of the prettiest sights in baseball.
Troy Tulowitzki scoops up a hot grounder, does a leaping Baryshnikov and strong-arms a throw to first base.
Tulo defines himself by that play. He's a shortstop — now and forever.
Despite two major surgeries to his left hip and groin area in the past two years, despite the torn left quadriceps he suffered in 2008, the Rockies star has no intention of switching positions.
"No, I won't move," he said in a phone interview. "I will retire before I move."
Not to third base? Not to first base, a position that could save him from wear and tear and possibly prolong his career?
"No. It's just who I am, it's what I do, it's what I have dreamed of as a kid," said Tulowitzki, 29. "It's all I know and it's all I've ever worked for. So I guess when you have a dream and you accomplish it and someone tries to take it away from you ... it wouldn't be worth it for me to try to move somewhere else."
Rockies manager Walt Weiss, who played 14 seasons as a big-league shortstop, understands where Tulo is coming from.
"That's been heard for four years now, about him changing positions. I get that all of the time," Weiss said. "My answer is that he is probably still the best in the game, at that position. It's not that easy to take a guy who's the best in the game, at one of the most demanding positions in the game, and move him to another position."
Tulowitzki, the Rockies' highest-paid player, will be due $118 million after this season on a contract that runs through 2020, with a club option for 2021.
Two weeks after having surgery in Vail to repair a torn labrum in his left hip, Tulowitzki is still on crutches. Though he's been cleared to ride a stationary bike, he will be hobbling around on crutches for another week. According to Rockies trainer Keith Dugger, Tulo's hip operation was a success and puts him on pace to be ready for spring training.
"The hope is that fixing the labrum kind of stabilizes my hip so that it's not the weakest link in my body, because the labrum was torn," Tulowitzki said. "Maybe those muscles in my legs, which have been working so hard ... can actually breathe now. I hope this works, so (the muscles) don't have to take the brunt of the work."
Rockies icon Todd Helton had a similar surgery in 2012. His hip was pain-free during his final season in 2013.
"I talked to Todd. That gave me some peace of mind," Tulowitzki said. "We had some similarities in our hip, though maybe we didn't have the same issues going on."
Despite his many injury setbacks, Tulo remains convinced he can return to play shortstop at the level that earned him two Gold Gloves. During the first half of this season, Tulowitzki was being mentioned as a National League MVP candidate. He led NL players in fan voting for the All-Star Game, receiving 5,349,456 votes. He also was captain of the NL's Home Run Derby squad.
"I have always said that if I was playing (shortstop) and I wasn't effective, then switching would be something I would talk about if I was hurting the team," the four-time all-star said. "But for me, I am not even thinking about it, because I still think I have a lot of years left playing that position at a high level."
After becoming a rookie sensation in 2007 and helping lead the Rockies to their only World Series, leg injuries became Tulo's nemesis. Since suffering a torn left quadriceps early in 2008, Tulowitzki has been compensating for issues with muscles in his left leg. He battled groin problems near the 2011 all-star break, and was limited to 47 games in 2012 before undergoing surgery to remove scar tissue from his left groin.
Since breaking in with the Rockies in August 2006, he has exceeded 150 games played just twice, in 2007 and 2009, both playoff seasons for the Rockies.
This season, by sticking to an intense pregame and postgame routine for flexibility and maintenance, he played in 91 of Colorado's first 97 games before yet another injury. He was on track for possibly the best season of his career. He was batting .340 with 21 home runs, a .432 on-base percentage and a .603 slugging percentage before suffering a left hip flexor strain while running out a groundball in Pittsburgh on July 19.
Tulowitzki underwent a dry needling procedure July 28 in Philadelphia. It was performed by leg and core muscle specialist Dr. William C. Meyers, and Tulo was hopeful the procedure would accelerate the healing process. Tulowitzki rejoined the Rockies and took batting practice, but there still was discomfort when he ran or worked on his fielding. At that point, the Rockies shut him down for the season.
Surgery, he's convinced, was the best option.
Although Tulo has been able to spend more time with his wife, Danyll, and their 7-month-old son, Taz, he gets restless watching Rockies games on TV.
"Once I'm back moving around and we see the benefits of the surgery, it will put me in a little bit better mood," he said. "But there is no doubt it's tough to take when you see that your team is still out there playing games. You wish you could be out there with them and help them win.
"They are doing what you love to do. It's not easy, but I keep on thinking about spring training and it can't come quick enough. I will be out there soon and hopefully feeling better than ever."


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Marvin Sordell struck a second-half double as Championship side Bolton booked an FA Cup fourth-round clash against Everton after stunning dismal Sunderland 2-0 at the Stadium of Light.
Sordell slid home a 64th-minute penalty and wrapped up victory nine minutes later as Dougie Freedman's men made sure of victory 10 days after blowing a two-goal lead in their Reebok Stadium clash.
QPR put their relegation worries to one side as Jay Bothroyd's second-half goal earned them a 1-0 victory over West Brom in an FA Cup third-round replay at the Hawthorns.
Bothroyd, back from a loan spell at Sheffield Wednesday, settled the tie when he headed home a corner from Alejandro Faurlin.
But he was denied the chance of a reunion with the Owls as they were beaten by MK Dons who will now visit Loftus Road in the fourth round.
Jon Walters bounced back from his Chelsea nightmare in style by netting a brace to help Stoke to a 4-1 extra-time victory over Crystal Palace in the FA Cup third-round replay at the Britannia Stadium.
Walters endured a miserable time of it in the Potters' 4-0 Premier League defeat to the Blues on Saturday, scoring two own goals and missing a penalty.
He received a vote of confidence from manager Tony Pulis, who opted to keep the forward in the team, and Walters responded by heading home to put Stoke 2-1 up in the fifth minute of extra-time before adding his second with 10 minutes remaining. Substitute Cameron Jerome then wrapped up the win with a strike in the dying moments.
Brede Hangeland headed a late extra-time winner as Fulham snatched a place in the FA Cup fourth round at the expense of Blackpool with a 2-1 win at Bloomfield Road.
The managerless Championship side looked to have dumped out their Premier League visitors when Nathan Delfouneso struck after 82 minutes on a freezing cold night at Bloomfield Road.
But Kieran Richardson came off the bench to rescue Fulham in injury time and Hangeland headed home in the 116th minute to book a date with Manchester United or West Ham.
Eddie Howe's unbeaten return as Bournemouth boss ended as the Cherries could not recreate their famous FA Cup upset of 1984 following a hard-fought 1-0 defeat to Wigan in their third round replay.
Bournemouth recorded a 2-0 third-round win over then-holders Manchester United under the guidance of Harry Redknapp a little more than 29 years ago but Howe's 18-game unbeaten run since taking over for his second spell on the south coast was ended by a much-altered Wigan side.
Roberto Martinez made nine changes to his team from that which drew at Fulham and one of those to come into the side, Argentina forward Mauro Boselli, struck a tremendous first-half goal to put the Premier League outfit into the next round.
Leeds set up an FA Cup tie at home against Tottenham after coming from behind to dump out Birmingham 2-1 in their third-round replay.
Wade Elliott put Blues ahead shortly after the half-hour mark, just as he had done in the initial meeting which finished 1-1 10 days ago.
But once again Leeds levelled after the break, this time courtesy of Ross McCormack's first goal since September - an effort which had not looked like coming with 19-goal striker Luciano Becchio, a reported January transfer target for a handful of clubs, missing due to illness.
El-Hadji Diouf, celebrating his 32nd birthday, then quickly completed the turnaround, keeping his cool to chip home from the penalty spot after Paul Robinson had been penalised for handball.
Brentford lined up a dream west London derby with FA Cup holders Chelsea thanks to a thrilling 2-1 third-round replay win over Southend.
But they had to sweat until Clayton Donaldson's 76th-minute winner after coming up against former goalkeeper Paul Smith in inspirational form.
MK Dons reached the FA Cup fourth round for the first time in their short history with a 2-0 replay victory over Sheffield Wednesday.
Shaun Williams' first-half penalty and a fortuitous second goal from a Dean Bowditch free-kick saw the League One team overcome their Championship opponents at stadium:mk.
Tom Cairney struck with three minutes of extra-time remaining to break Leyton Orient hearts and send Hull into the FA Cup fourth round with a 2-1 win.
The midfielder's shot from the edge of the penalty area squirmed away from the despairing dive of Orient goalkeeper Jamie Jones and rolled into the net.
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Hi all,
I was hoping my next blog post would be on a very positive note, but unfortunately, this is not the case. For health reasons, I have decided to resign from my position as developer here.
Over the past four years, my health hasn't really been excellent, and now the time has arrived that I can no longer afford to just keep things as they are. Realising this, I am taking action now, by taking some very drastic measures, one of which being resigning from my position here. :(
Initially, I wanted to hold out at least until 2.0 had gone gold, but like I said, I can no longer keep this up and really need to choose for myself for a change.
While I realise this probably comes as a surprise to most of you, I have good faith in the rest of the team and think 2.0 will go gold before you know it. :)
All the best,
Adish - (F.L.A.M.E.R):
Wait! 2nd April Fool's Joke.. :(
Get well soon! One more down. Swine flu is passing on really quickly!
I'm sorry to hear this, Aaron, but as ever real life - especially when it affects your health - has to come first.
If you don't return around here, take care, all the best and thank you for all your efforts with SMF :)
Best of luck to you. :)
Thanks for all you have done :) You will be missed.
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"I think a broker is a negotiator and we don't do that, we are more like a mirror. We have a mirror; you can look at it and you can see how the world looks, if you don't like it you don't look at it" (Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat).
Downstream from the knowledge used for the development of PISA, we have noticed the existence of a new type of knowledge generated by these sources and the actors utilizing this knowledge. PISA reports incorporate, demarcate and highlight the knowledge generated by various "collectives", while giving greater importance to and changing the nature of the knowledge generated in the abovementioned collaborative forces. The background work underlying the survey (e.g., experts preparing the framework, building the assessment instruments, and collecting, processing and analyzing the statistical data) that is detailed in the technical annex of the report along with the procedures leading to the creation of said knowledge, has been transformed into "results", "analyses" and "implications". In other words, the report mobilizes and concretizes the knowledge generated throughout the survey activities, but also stretches this information to lend it new meaning.
PISA management, at the OECD, is fully aware that their texts are selectively used by their audiences. This seems to be the price to pay for greater value and a larger ambition, that is to say, supply credible and understandable information to their audiences and generate learning: "(…) the selective views of the information and the policy debate are a problem that we have to live with. Selecting information is better than having no information". (…) "I must say for comparison purposes, that a lot has happened between the public debate on PISA in the year 2000 and the current situation. In 2000, I was very frustrated by the simplistic discussion on PISA. Today we really have people who take things very seriously, who look at the substance. (…) I take that as a learning process at all levels"(Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat).
Hence, the reality deriving from and based on the scientific methodology reflected in the mirror, is developed in line with these canons and adapted to the audience. There is a central tension in the writing of the reports: "A good report is one that tells a very clear story (…) and (…) our role is to always find an objective interpretation of the data. I could have written 10 pages for each of these indicators stating what I believe they tell me, but that's not what we do in this report; we limit ourselves to things that we have seen. A good report offering substance should be accessible to people and understandable. Our reports probably are a bit too complicated. I think that's the price to pay…if journalists worked on this, they would make everything much clearer and much simpler, but accuracy would be lost…[Researcher: Is it a difficult balance between…] I think that if we have to make a choice, we should always aim for accuracy, even if it makes things more complicated" (Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat).
We have previously demonstrated how the reports do not directly prescribe policies – insofar as they do not proclaim 'this is what should be done'. Instead, they are guidelines for organizing the readers' analysis, appraisals and reflections. Our final analytical incursion will now deal with this matter.
The reports are presented and want to be understood as a mirror that (merely) reveals – with scientific clarity – the reality of school performance and the relationships with the socio-economic backgrounds and mediation factors (political intervention). They are not presented as a kind of magic Disney film mirror that judges the quality of the actors. The search for this condition is borne out of the diligence taken, throughout all of the reports, to enlighten the reader about how the data is and/or can be interpreted and which conclusions can be drawn from said data.
From the point of view of the PISA managers (and at the OECD level), what counts the most is to be recognized as a com-pulsory space for policy debates and policy decision-making founded on scientific evidence; the purpose being to uncover "new" problems and provide new information "based on evidence" – and not so much problem solving: "(…) I think that PISA is really about the fact that classroom reality and public policies often do not match; you know that public policy decisions often have fairly little do to with the real work that teachers carry out in the classroom. PISA allows to connect the two, because one can actually see what happens (intercourse) and in that sense, it generates the knowledge necessary to make the reality of education accessible (…)" (Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat).
This discourse about PISA reports reveals the presence of a vision of the OECD which brings to light and confirms its role as an ideational authority, "playing an idea game, through which it collects and handles data, knowledge, visions and ideas and distributes them to its member countries and, to a greater extent even, a number of non-member countries" (Marcussen, 200: 91). PISA surveys and reports are essential to display a constant capacity to produce innovation in national political discourses, breaking away from the stereotypes of public action and differentiation with regard to national policy ideas. As such, the question of the "independence" of the OECD and the independent nature of its products is also an issue that is raised when these participants discuss the identity of the organization ("I mean, the OECD is an independent organization, but now people understand that". "(…) [B]ecause PISA is an independent evaluation instrument (…)" (Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat).
In this perspective, the enrichment of the role of PISA is also championed by the dissemination of "evidence" and descriptions, rather than producing interpretations and prescriptions – "I think we should limit ourselves; we deal with descriptive analysis, which means more or less describing how the world is, without stating how to make the world better and, I think, that is something we must be very careful with" (…)» (Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat ) – and extending the analytical and interpretive work of others, as a standard of the quality to be pursued in the future [1].
As we advocated earlier, the "expert mirror" brings much more than a simple mapping of reality. "Indicators are not numbers: they are words; they are named" – thus, they define "what to look at", "where to look", and "how to look at it" (Mangez, 2008: 106). Furthermore, the image –knowledge – that the mirror projects is created in a theoretical and technical manner, under particular social circumstances and by specific actors (Nassehi et al., 2007:141). The reality shown by the mirror includes, articulates and disseminates assumptions about education, schooling, and their relationship with the economy and society (see Carvalho, 2009: 40-44). It also mobilizes, structures and disseminates models for their cognition (see Carvalho, 2009: 48-54) legitimated through statistical measurements, comparisons and various forms of substantive knowledge. Indeed, the image of the expert organizes and acts on "les catégories de perception et d'appréciation du monde social, les structures cognitives et évaluatives" (Bourdieu, 1987: 159).
One of the central aspects of this intervention on the categories of perception lies in the mirror showing each one (each country) in its relationship and position relative to others. As we wrote earlier, comparisons situate policy decision-makers on an imagined time-line leading from the industrial society into the knowledge society and simultaneously positions them in a competitive-cooperative worldwide space. The international comparison is a place where we imagine a transnational society (outlining for individuals a common background of performance and engagement expectations in social life based on the trust vested in scientific expertise) and in which a "transnational policy" is constructed (in which the states are voluntarily involved with other instances in the joint production of rules). In parallel, these comparisons comprise tools for the exercise of government authority and their scrutiny at national level. From this point of view, the image that the "mirror" returns to us is in itself a discourse of power, both through culpability and responsibility and through the hope, optimism and confidence in the possibility of reform brought by politicians and national policies.
Tools such as PISA are valuable resources to reflect over and act or to legitimize action, thanks to their reputed objectivity with regard to reality and the fact they are, at least prima facie, outside the interests that this type of knowledge entails in our societies. One can suppose that national politicians will find it difficult to disregard the studies produced by agencies that – taken as independent structures of expertise – provide them with resources they need to engage in political struggles and think and/or express their guidelines in the name of the independence and cosmopolitism of this specialized knowledge. As the reader knows, it is not this report's responsibility to deal with this matter [2].
[1] "This report is very important and my dream is that in 10 years' time, yes this report will exist but 50 others reports will exist, produced by your universities, produced by thinkers, produced by….that's where we need to get. Today, the world listens to interpretation of data like this. I hope that in the future the world really listens to every little datum so that people will find information on the web and will draw their own conclusions. There may be controversies, they may not agree and with this report we always have to make sure that what we say is basically…you will not find any opinions in this book, we can't do that, but I think I've nothing against preparing opinions, I think opinions will be great. If lots of people have lots of opinions about things, we should publish them and we're working on it. I mean the online database that we've put out on the web is the first step, but we have realized that many people find it too difficult to use, so we've now developed manuals and I really hope that in the long term there will be a different balance in the use of the data and the interpretations that we have here (…)" (Interview, OECD's PISA Secretariat).
[2] What comes out of this immense repository of results and analysis of results supplied by PISA when the audiences come into contact with them, and what happens as regards their use in the scope of policy action in education is a matter that will be analyzed in the reports about the active reception of PISA.
CARVALHO L.M. [with E. COSTA] (2009), Production of OECD's - Programme for International Students Assessment" (PISA), KNOWandPOL Report.


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And where does the power from heating the air come from?
Geo-thermal vents spring to mind, amongst other things, such as using this technique along with the exhaust from a nuclear reactor to increase its power output.
Yes, let's create controlled tornadoes in the immediate vicinity of nuclear reactors.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly get wrong when an puny, artificial tornado that will dissipate as soon as it is removed from its source is created in proximity to a reactor sheltered within a dome strong enough to withstand even the strongest natural tornadoes? I'm thinking absolutely nothing.
if it runs on hot air on a hot day it could once started possible run off of ambient heat then destroy the nuclear plant
if it runs on hot air on a hot day it could once started possible run off of ambient heat then destroy the nuclear plant
Hot air on a hot day alone is likely not sufficient to produce even a F3 strength tornado; let alone a F5+ supertornado/superburst capable of damaging the plant
so i'm not sure where this idea that an AVE could produce a tornado came from, but this is slashdot
Yeahp.... ambient hot air would likely shut it down, as the differential no longer exist.... and people accuse Microsoft of creating FUD
if strong Tornados had such simple requirements to form on their own; there'd be a heck of a lot more natural tornados ravaging the lands.
If you read the press releases from when they started building nukes they promised that electricity would be so cheap they might just get rid of meters. That hasn't quite worked out. Turns out they were right about nukes being cleaner than coal, but try to tell that to people who live near Fukushima.
Yes, let's create controlled tornadoes in the immediate vicinity of nuclear reactors. What could possibly go wrong?
When the reactor explodes, you simply use the controlled tornado to carry all the stuff away!
I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before...
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=tornado+reactor+movie&l=1 [lmgtfy.com]
Yes, let's create controlled tornadoes in the immediate vicinity of nuclear reactors. What could possibly go wrong?
this: http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0281617/ [imdb.com]
Controlled nuclear reactions in the immediate vicinity of nuclear reactors. What could possibly go wrong? (A lot)
Sure... but the original argument of $0.03 / kwH. Is very similar to the idea of having a perpetual motion machine, or "harnessing free energy from the vacuum"; with a new label stamped on it.
The use of geothermal heat makes sense, in which case it's just Geothermal power, or "Power produced by tapping exhaust heat" which requires more energy than suggested, and there are already other Geothermal power production methods.... so this is of benefit, only if more efficient, or it can harness exhaust he
Data Centers! Nothing like reclaiming energy from all those computers.
I believe the idea is to use industrial waste heat.
This is less efficient than cogeneration, and almost certainly less efficient than preheating, but better than just dumping the heat to the environment since that is 0% efficient.
And where does the power from heating the air come from?
Congress! Where else? Studies have shown that multiple tornadoes worth of hot air can at times be generated by even a single congressperson, it's just a matter of finding the right one. Yeah, I lost the link to those studies, but hey, you know it's true.
I would hope they could use solar power. Otherwise, the energy used to create hot steam would be better off just driving a steam turbine, or just being fed directly into the grid if it electricity.
So the generator has no carbon emissions, but without heat it doesn't work.
So where do they get the heat, and how much better is it to use the heat for this instead of any of the dozen other electrical generation methods?
The heat required to get the mini-tornado started would be provided by a temporary heat source, such as a heater, or steam. However, AVEtec states that once the vortex is thus established, the continuous heat could then be provided by a more sustainable source – such as waste industrial heat or warm seawater.
Seems a little hand-wavey, and I'd still like to see how "potential" this 3 cents per kilowatt hour prediction is.
But the idea of parking one over a geothermal vent or floating them on the ocea
You don't need a geothermal vent. A large number of mirrors and a receiver filled with molten salts is itself already a proven technology. Concentrated solar thermal chimneys are actually part of the basis of this design, and they've been generating megawatts for decades in sunnier parts of the world.
We should have been using this technology already, but skewed money comparisons that ignore pollution and military expenditures make oil *seem* cheaper than these, which it really isn't overall.
http://www.csp-world.com/tags/khi-solar-one [csp-world.com]
How do military expenditures make oil seem cheaper. Last I checked, Republicans in Congress was rebuking the Navy for their investments in alternative energy sources. Turns out the Navy is big on those since it means they wouldn't have to rely on oil. So far, the Navy has been able to tell Congressional Republicans to shove it up their stove pipes.
Because you pay for the cost of keeping oil supply under control not at the gas pump, but through taxes, yet you pay for it all the same, because other energy supplies would not oblige the military to defend the interests of oil companies.
because other energy supplies would not oblige the military to defend the interests of oil companies.
And what would we blame that spending on next? US military spending exists at the level it's at due to wildly successful, political rent seeking, not handouts to petroleum-based industries.
Three cents for a kilowatt hour, and that's *without* externalized costs like oil spills, oil wars, blown up mountains, and polluted air and water. You could even use concentrated solar thermal heat to drive this thing.
Anyone who says renewables aren't ready isn't paying attention.
Whoa, there. I'll be as glad as the next guy if this really does pan out. But this is a prototype.
ok, I assume that the cost of heating that air at bottom is already calculated in.
Even if I doubt global warming, I was always thinking, that the hotter it is, the more energy we have, the more power to us (skpping the floods of some coastal regions). I wasn't however sure how to exploit this energy. Well, perhaps AVE is the answer...
Coastal flooding is the least of our problems if global warming gets out of control.
The real kick in the balls would be changing weather patterns fucking over our agricultural industry.
Floods will displace people, but if the breadbasket dries out, everyone goes hungry, including the displaced.
I guess you could use AVE to desalinate water and irrigate the entire country, but that would be the kind of infrastructure project beyond the means of private industry and our current political environment would not b
Coastal flooding is the least of our problems if global warming gets out of control.
The real kick in the balls would be changing weather patterns fucking over our agricultural industry.
Worst US drought in decades deepens to cover 60 percent of lower 48 states [nbcnews.com]
How hot it is matters not one bit, the limit to how much energy you can extract is the temperature difference. Your doubt of global warming seems likely cause by a lack of basic scientific understanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot's_theorem_(thermodynamics) [wikipedia.org]
Apparently, Polish schools are as bad as US schools at teaching thermodynamic principles (though I would hope not).
Either way it would reduce reliance on fossil fuel. If you have a coal burning power plant making X megawatts and you can get another Y megawatts for "free" that means either less peaking plants need to be run or X can be reduced by some amount by burning less fuel.
Either way it would reduce reliance on fossil fuel.
I'm all for reducing emissions but I find it difficult in the extreme to believe a modified exhaust pipe can extract significant amounts of electricity from the heat that leaks out of a coal plant. Coal plants are already designed to use the heat as efficiently as possible. The laws of thermodynamics say that nature will never allow you to use 100% of that heat, the laws of economics say it probably not worth the capital expenditure to suck any of the residual energy from the exhaust pipe. There's nothing n
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Google "Tornado Turbine" and look for the January 1977 issue of Popular Science. This idea has been around for a long, long time. Back then, the idea was to take advantage of solar heating of the tower to drive the vortex. I've seen similar ideas that were supposed to take advantage of natural pressure / temperature differentials along cliffs and mountains, etc. None have ever been made to work in any practical way.
When someone fails to check the prior art and starts trumpeting about his or her re-invention of the wheel, then you can just about discount the claims from the start. Why should anyone trust the opinion of an engineer who can't even be bothered to do any background research?
Everything in its path would not be fried at all with those plans that use microwaves to transmit power from space. The amount of energy per square meter is held low enough to ensure that. Then a very large(in area coverd) antenna grid is used to relieve this. Are you afraid of being burned to death by your cell phone?
an old idea from decades ago when all manner of weird and quirky ideas was bandied about from solar panels in orbit many miles square beaming microwave energy back to a receiver on earth (except any living thing in its path would be fried!),
Except that:
- Things wouldn't be fried, microwave-oven style, because microwave oven makers picked a frequency that is strongly absorbed by water (to heat food) while space-solar people picked on that passes through water very well (to not waste power heating clo
Next we will be ionizing the air and letting it pass between some plates to generate electricity directly. (no moving parts)
Brilliant !
This is basically a cooling tower, that's also capable of recycling some of the waste heat.
If you tap the energy of tornadoes to generate power, it will reduce their remaining energy. Tap enough energy and they might become nearly extinct. If this happens, mobile homes, with no remaining natural predators, will multiply out of control.
The company proposing this says the cost could potentially eventually be as low as $0.03 per kilowatt hour. Translation: it costs way more than that.
Meanwhile, the next province over from where the company is based in Sarnia, Ontario... HydroQuebec is charging $0.05 per kilowatt hour, today, for real-world use.
We already get all of our power from hydro, and there's still lots of untapped capacity. I don't think not being able to buy any is a risk anytime soon.
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Richard III supporters such as Philippa Langley, a screenwriter and member of the Richard III Society, were driven to find the lost king's remains by a desire to reopen the debate over his place in history....Why does finding the body have anything to do with the historical project of finding out what really happened in the past? There's something in the human psyche that makes us care about an ancient controversy because we are confronted with the man's bones. But there is also some relevant evidence:
"I think the discovery brought the real Richard into sharp focus," Langley said. "People are realizing that a lot of what they thought they knew about Richard III was pretty much propaganda and myth building."
Trauma analysis of the skeleton found 10 battle wounds, eight on the skull and two on the body, which were inflicted around the time of death, according to Jo Appleby, project osteologist of the University of Leicester. Many of the wounds provided evidence of "post-mortem humiliation injuries," exacted on Richard III after death by his adversaries.It looked a little something like this:
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CHICAGO (STMW) — Basketball superstar Dwyane Wade will pay his former high school sweetheart, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, $5 million in a divorce settlement that a judge decided was valid on Monday, the Sun-Times is reporting.
The settlement also includes a "non-disparage" agreement in which each party must refrain from making disparaging remarks about the other.
Funches-Wade also will receive the couples' former mansion in South Holland and four cars.
Brian Hurst, an attorney for Funches-Wade, argued that his client never fully agreed to all the provisions in the settlement, including the "non-disparage" provision. But Cook County Circuit Court Judge John Thomas Carr decided both parties did agree on the deal and he found the settlement valid, effectively ending a six-year divorce proceeding that has drawn national attention.
Exactly what will constitute a disparaging remark still needs to be hammered out, but Wade's attorney, James Pritikin, expects violation of the terms would result in a fine. Pritikin said protection from disparaging remarks also would extend to Wade's family members, as well as his girlfriend, actress Gabrielle Union.
Outside the courtroom Monday, Funches-Wade expressed her displeasure with the decision. "My voice isn't for sale, my story isn't for sale, no thank you."
Wade did not attend the hearing.
Funches-Wade, who on Friday sat outside the Daley Center with a cardboard sign that read: "NBA Miami Heat star, mother of his children on the streets," has repeatedly said the three-time Miami Heat champion has not kept his obligation to pay $25,000 a month in spousal support.
Pritikin dismissed the assertion and issued a written statement Monday afternoon: "Dwyane Wade has made several requests over the years to settle this matter, despite Ms. Funches having 16 different attorneys and 2 arrests throughout this process. Mr. Wade has provided a very generous settlement to Ms. Funches to continue to live a wonderful lifestyle for the rest of her life. Despite false allegations by Ms. Funches claiming to be 'homeless' and 'destitute,' Dwyane Wade has maintained over the years financial support to his ex-wife by providing her with income over $25,000 on a monthly basis, timely paid for her home mortgage, maintenance and security at the house, 4 cars, insurance, taxes and all of her attorney fees throughout this process.
"Ms. Funches has made a mockery of homelessness which is a serious and personal issue for Mr. Wade as his mother was homeless for a period of time when he was a child. Dwyane Wade was awarded sole custody of their sons by the court in 2011," the statement continued. "The safety and well-being of his children are his main priority. Due to Ms. Funches' current unstable mental state, her visitation will be determined by the court. Mr. Wade continues to hope that one day he will have a civil relationship with his ex-wife for the sake of their sons."
Hurst said he was not happy with the judge's decision and planned to explore his legal options.
The couple married in 2002. They have two sons, Zion and Zaire. Wade filed for divorce in 2007, and the divorce was finalized in 2010. Wade was awarded sole custody of their kids in 2011.
Wade grew up in Robbins and attended Richards High School in Oak Lawn before playing basketball for Marquette University in Milwaukee.
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Telltale Games has added yet another piece of delicious licensed product to its heaping plate, announcing that it is working with NBC Universal to develop a game based on the TV series Law & Order: Los Angeles. The game is due this year for PC, Mac, console, mobile, and tablets -- those last two undoubtedly mean iPhone and iPad. The partnership leaves room for social media as well, though that isn't an announced platform yet.
The announcement claims that Telltale will draw from its experience with "police and crime procedurals," which makes sense considering its numerous games based on the CSI series like CSI Deadly Intent. For Law & Order, the games are said to focus on police work with a "heavy dose of courtroom drama" as well.
"'Law & Order: LA' fits very well within the style of episodic entertainment experiences Telltale has been building since our very first days," said company co-founder and CEO Dan Connors in the announcement. "The talents and skills that we've been building at Telltale are ideally suited for the structure and storytelling approach of televised procedurals like 'Law & Order.'"
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May 8 — Odell Highway, 3000 block — Officer contacted male subject regarding a criminal mischief complaint.
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May 8 — Tucker Road, 1000 Tucker Road — Officer investigated a three-vehicle, minor injury crash. One person was transported to the hospital for possible injury, and all three vehicles were able to be driven away from the scene.
May 13 — Wy'east Road, 2800 block — Male arrested for reckless driving and failure to perform duties of a driver involved in a motor vehicle crash with property damage after severing a Hood River Electric Co-op pole at the base and attempting to hide his vehicle at his residence.
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May 8 — Carter Road, 1900 block — Male and female arrested on outstanding warrants out of Hood River County and lodged at NORCOR.
May 11 — Alameda Road at Barrett Drive — Male arrested for outstanding warrant.
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May 7 — Odell Highway, 3300 block — Officer took report of a theft at an Odell market.
May 8 — Bridge of the Gods, Cascade Locks — Deputies from Hood River County and Skamania County subdued a male attempting to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge. He was unharmed. He was treated at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital and evaluated by a mental health specialist.
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GEARY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- The truck driver identified as the suspect in a deadly hit-and-run on Interstate 70 is now in custody in Geary County to face charges in the fatal crash.
Rodney Leroy Stockstill Sr., 51, of St. Joseph Missouri, is being held in the Geary County Jail. He was transported to Geary County last week from Doniphan County, where he was arrested last month on drug charges, including possession of methamphetamine.
Geary County authorities say Stockstill is the driver who struck a motorcyclist on I-70 and fled the scene, leaving the victim with fatal injuries.
Officials say Stockstill who was on his normal trucking route at the time of the crash.
He is alleged to have been driving the semi involved in the accident and to have left the scene of the crash that resulted in the death of an Ohio man who was driving a 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle.
On August 24, 2012 at 3 AM, Geary County deputies responded to I-70 mile post 310 west bound off-ramp to the rest area approximately 13 miles east of Junction City for a possible injury accident.
Dispatch stated that there was a man lying on the ground not moving next to a motorcycle. Passersby found the victim and called 911.
Officers arrived and found Bradey Weaver, 28, of Toledo, Ohio, suffering from serious head injuries. Weaver had been on a road trip to Las Vegas at the time of the deadly accident.
Weaver was rushed to the emergency room at Geary Community Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Officials later revealed that Weaver was killed in a hit-and-run and asked for the public's assistance gathering information on the case. The case remained under investigation for several months and in early November, Stockstill was named the suspect.
Weaver's motorcycle was struck from behind by Stockstill's 18-wheeler, according to Geary County authorities.
Stockstill is a truck driver who works for a company out of Doniphan County, Kansas and was traveling through Geary County on a route he took several times a week, officials said.
Paint transfer on the motorcycle was sent to the KBI for analysis but Geary County authorities remain tight-lipped on what evidence or information led them to charge Stockstill in the crash that claimed Weaver's life.
Rodney Stockstill Sr. is currently being held in the Geary County Jail on $50,000 bond. He will appear in court for a status hearing on December 13, 2012. Jail records indicate that he was booked on charges of Accident Involving a Death and Making a False Writing.


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"Never, during all the years that I knew him, did I hear him play so well."
In the above sentence, is there a filler word?
I know that filler words mean the words people say like 'uhmm'.. while they are thinking.
I wonder if there is an unnecessary word in the above sentence.
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It's about workplace fairness and equality and not about collective bargaining. That's the message from Gov. Snyder who took a clear stance toward a "Right to Work" bill.
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On March 30, 2011, Quebec Minister of Finance, Raymond Bachand, announced that students would have to pay more for their university education, and that the funding of universities would require a greater contribution from students. Following this announcement, Quebec student associations decided to speak for all students, as if magically all students were of the same opinion. (...) - Academic Matters, By Arielle Grenier | From the November 2012 Issue
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Surname Saturday - Westover
The Westover line has a very long history. Jonas Westover from England, married November 19, 1663 in Windsor, Connecticut and there is quite a bit of information on this line. However, my more direct line left Connecticut around 1735 for western Massachusetts, then on to Quebec.
My Westover names on RootsWeb total over 900. My direct lines are in All Caps. For my American and Canadian ancestor, mentioned above, I have 18 sources for Moses Westover. I even have a Google alert on the name Westover + obituary. However, I am not actively searching for more information on this family, but will analyze anything that drops in my lap. Over the years, about 25 people have contacted me and information was exchanged.
In future blogs, I will provide more information, including cemetery stone photos.
Note: Since this early post, I have written quite a few posts pertaining to the Westover line, including a will.
12 comments:
- Dr. Bill (William L.) Smith said...
I have enjoyed reading your blog, and comments, and have awarded you the Happy 101 Award. You can pick up your award at Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories
- January 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- Wendy said...
I wonder if Westover Air Reserve Base (in Chicopee, MA) is named after him!
- January 9, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Bill West said...
I've given you a Happy 101 Award over at:
- January 10, 2010 at 3:52 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
Hi Wendy, I used to wonder about Oscar Westover (the base is named for him), but he isn't in my tree, as his line comes from Germany. His roots aren't the same. Congrats on your The Happy 101 Award.
Dr. Bill and Bill, Thank you both so much for selecting me to receive the Happy 101 Award. In my November 30th post, "Looking Back" I declined a number of awards, and have decided to continue in that vein. I am honored, but don't wish to participate. I have never done any writing, and I am absoluely thrilled that you enjoy what I write. Thank you.
- January 10, 2010 at 5:19 PM
I saw that you have Albee Westover on Rootsweb.
My friend Donald is his son.
- March 14, 2010 at 4:53 PM
- Barbara said...
Hi, Do you think they are interested in their genealogy? If so, please write.
- March 14, 2010 at 5:42 PM
Hello Barb, yes Donald and his wife Dorothy are interested. I will contact you in the email that you have posted on your page. The G-mail address. Is that ok?
- March 15, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Barbara said...
Yes, please write.
- March 15, 2010 at 10:47 AM
- Jacky said...
Hi Barbara, I came across your blog as I was researching my line of Westovers. Moses is my 6th great grandfather. I don't know much about this line yet, since I just started researching them very recently. I am happy to have come upon your blog! :)
- March 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Barbara said...
Hi Jacky, I'm glad you found this, and in a few months will post his cemetery stone. Please write me.
- March 27, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- Amanda Kudary said...
I am granddaughter of Alberta Jaunita Westover. Her father was Lynn Lumon Westover. :)
- March 30, 2014 at 7:31 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Amanda, Thank you for taking the time to write. I would like to add your great-grandfather's name into my tree, but I am unable to because I don't have Alberta's name, in other words, I don't have enough information to link either of your names to my tree. Could you please help me out by writing me at BarbaraPoole@gmail, with a little more information. Thank you so much.
- March 31, 2014 at 8:23 AM


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Firefighter recalls harrowing day
March 19 marked the 35th anniversary of the BHS auditorium fire
March 19, 1979, is a day Terry Bowman will never forget.
It was the week of spring break, and all of the 1,710 students at Beaverton High School were gone when the schools auditorium/theater caught fire.
Bowman, a firefighter who worked for what was then known as Washington County Fire District No. 1, was on one of the engines responding to the four-alarm blaze.
Before the day was out, Bowman would be severely burned in one of the worst survivable accidents that a firefighter has encountered in the last three-and-a-half decades among the three fire districts that would eventually merge to form Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, according to local fire officials. He would suffer second- and third-degree burns over 49 percent of his body.
Still, 35 years later, Bowman clearly remembers the moment-to-moment incident as if it were yesterday.
You know when they say you have a big experience like that, it cements it well into your mind, Bowman, 72, said from his Rockaway Beach home recently. Yeah, I remember every bit of it.
Normally, Bowman, who was then 36, would have remained on the ground, operating the aerial ladder. But that day he wanted to help out, climbing up to the auditorium roof to hand off a chainsaw to his fellow firefighters, so they could ventilate the building.
While he had his heavy turnout trousers on when he ascended the ladder, he didnt have on his turnout jacket, wearing only a short-sleeved shirt.
The fire had been burning for several hours at that point, and firefighters were searching for its source, which ultimately would be traced to a space between the auditoriums roof and a false roof underneath it. The cause would turn out to be a light bulb touching a seat cushion. (See sidebar on upcoming tribute to Beaverton High School drama teacher James Erickson and the anniversary of the fire.)
Once he got up there, he fired up the chainsaw and waited to see if anything else was needed.
In 2011, former Beaverton Fire Department Chief Oscar Sox Lee, who led the department at the time, recalled telling his men to get off the roof! Get off the roof!
By that time, the firefighters at the scene already sensed the roof was about to collapse.
I saw the smoke start coming up from the seams between the roof and the parapet, and just suddenly it back-drafted and happened all at once, and I ran for the edge, Bowman recalled. I knew where the ladder was, and I jumped through a wall of flame.
Engulfed in flames, he made it onto the ladder.
At that point, the roof started to come down and pulled away from the (concrete block) walls and (went) down.
Because his hands and arms were so badly burned, Bowman couldnt use them to navigate down the ladder.
What would etch the memory of the drama into everyones brain was the fact a television station cameraman and a photographer from The Oregonian captured everything on film.
When Bowman got to the bottom of the ladder, firefighters sprayed him down with water. His short-sleeved shirt was completely burned off his body, an iconic photo shows him standing upright tended by fire officials as the auditorium fire still raged in the background.
Art Thurber, a retired firefighter with Beaverton Fire Department Station 267, was the person Bowman handed the chainsaw to.
I was walking toward Terry to get the chainsaw and thats when the roof first opened up and got him, he said. I heard him scream. Then he was gone. You couldnt see him anymore because of the smoke and the fire.
Prior to the fire escalating, Thurber, now 66 and a part-time resident of Pacific City, decided to walk the perimeter of the auditorium just in case he and his fellow firefighters needed a quick escape route. He discovered one at the north end.
Thurber said he remembers Lt. Dave Asher saying something to the effect that they had run out of time.
At that point, all four of the firefighters on the roof went to the north end and jumped from the parapet to a roof over the entrance of the auditorium. The last to jump off, Thurber remembers the intense heat he felt on his legs as he left the main roof just moments before the roof collapsed.
Today, both he and Bowman occasionally hunt and raft together.
Thurber said he doesnt often think of that day, saying some unpleasant memories you want to block out.
That was too close, he said.
Long recovery
Bowmans recovery would take some time, he said. Doctors grafted skin from his legs and put it on his arms. In addition, he had to wear special gloves for two years and compression elastic around his torso.
I know what its like to wear a girdle, he joked.
The suspenders holding up his turnout pants and the chin strap from his helmet protected the skin underneath, so he still has distinctive marks (less so on his chin) to this day.
It melted my glasses, he recalled.
He kept his helmet deformed by the heat as a souvenir to a long and painful recovery.
Bowman recalled too, just how long, hot and dangerous the fire really was. A fellow firefighter later told him he witnessed steam coming out of one of the schools water fountains and a glass wall blowing out.
That was more like an explosion, he said, noting that several firefighters were blasted down the hall by the force.
Because of the video, fire departments across the country still use it as part of training exercises to emphasize the importance of wearing proper protective gear.
Its a bummer to be known forever for a mistake, Bowman said.
Retired Chief Lee talked about how deeply Bowmans injuries affected him.
That was one of the worst days of my life when Terry was burned, said Lee.
One thing Bowman never doubted was that he would return to firefighting, which he did.
Upbeat and positive by nature, Bowman can joke about some of the aspects of his accident today, including the day several Chemeketa Community College students paid a visit to the Progress Fire Station, where he spent most of his career.
They were in training for being (firefighters), and they said, You know, its kind of a dangerous business. We just saw this video of this guy that came down the ladder on fire. And I said, Oh, that was me, and they said, Oh no, it wasnt; this was a young guy.
Return to the scene
Bowman said he eventually went back to look at the destroyed auditorium.
Understandably, it took awhile for him to regain enough courage to once again climb atop a tall structure again. From that point on, he always made sure he was one step closer to the edge of the roof of any future building fires he fought.
Bowman would go on and retire more than 10 years later, working along the way on the fire districts hazardous materials team.
Although his injuries were serious, he said he didnt suffer any long-term health effects.
I dont have any problems, said Bowman. Everything is good and healthy.
Today, with a contract with the city of Rockaway Beach, Bowman and his wife Marilou run the management part of the Nedonna Rural Fire Protection District out of their home, collecting the taxes and making budgets for the special district.
They also run a neighborhood association and are actively involved in the local Lions Club.
And despite his accident, Bowman has never had any regrets about the career he chose, saying everyone is glad to see a fireman.
I was really happy being a firefighter, he said. There is no better job.
Exhibit honors history and the legacy of those who made an impact
As part of the 35th anniversary of the Beaverton High School fire, the Beaverton History Center will host a special exhibit, The James N. Erickson Legacy Project, May 27 through Aug. 26.
The plan is to both recall the devastating four-alarm fire while paying tribute to Erickson, the legendary drama teacher and theater director whose 29-year legacy is still felt by students today.
The exhibit will also focus on the unique collaboration between BHSs theater department and Aloha High Schools program, led for 23 years by Carol Coburn, also a renowned teacher and director.
Michael Shafer-Montgomery, chairman of the James N. Erickson Legacy Project and a 1988 BHS alumnus, is collecting photos, news clips, iconic costumes, scrap books and other items for the project and seeking the publics help.


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MAYNARD (AP) -- A former teacher's aide at Maynard High School has a date in court to face charges that she provided marijuana and alcohol to students, and smoked pot with them on school property.
Jennifer Olsen of Maynard is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Concord District Court on charges including of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and procuring alcohol for a minor.
The 41-year-old Olsen was fired Nov. 5 after she failed to show up for an administrative hearing with school officials.
Authorities allege Olsen drove four students to a secluded parking lot where they all smoked marijuana in her vehicle.
Olsen also allegedly met with the same four students to smoke marijuana on school grounds.
Olsen also allegedly purchased alcohol for the teenagers.
She could not be reached.