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In Escondido, Calif., Davids Killory Designed A Community For Homeless Mothers And Children.
It's easy to think of architects around 1990 as preoccupied with form-making and historical allusion, but social issues had by no means been forgotten—and certainly not by that year's jury of architects, planners, and researchers. A development for needy Escondido residents, identified as "Housing for Homeless Mothers and Children," satisfied the jurors' desire to find socially responsible housing solutions.
Completed by the North County Housing Foundation and now known as Daybreak Grove, this complex includes 13 townhouses neatly lined up around a shared courtyard. Davids Killory Architecture's design emphasizes the home-scaled identity of the individual units, each provided with a front porch and a room-sized private open court. Each unit also includes a first-floor bedroom, with a second loft bedroom overlooking the double-height living room. On the exterior, crisp geometric forms and tinted stucco yield compositions that are playful yet dignified—and compatible with the Southern California residential vernacular.
In this citation-winning scheme, the shared central courtyard was filled with play structures that some jurors found excessive for this project. In actuality, the play equipment has been sharply scaled down, and the largely open space features a modest laundry building, topped with steps for climbing and sitting. A canopy of trees now shades this community space.
In 1992, a P/A Award went to a second project in Escondido by Davids Killory for the same client: a seven-unit vest-pocket development for homeless families, now known as Sunrise Place. Both can still serve as models for affordable housing in which residents and the larger community can take pride.
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Israel Keyes, a confessed serial killer, was found dead in his jail cell Sunday in Anchorage, US Attorney Karen Loeffler said in a news conference over the weekend.
Although details of Keyes' death were not revealed, officials say that the confessed serial killer was alone in his cell and that foul play was not suspected.
Keyes was awaiting trial for the murder of 18-year-old Samantha Koenig, who disappeared in February. The confessed serial killer, who was eventually arrested in Texas, later admitted to abducting and murdering the girl and was to face trial in March.
Keyes also admitted to the murder of a Vermont couple, Bill and Lorraine Currier, in June of last year. Prosecutors claim that Keyes also confessed to killing five other people, but the names of the victims were never uncovered.
"He did tell us that he had killed other people and that there were bodies of up to four other people in Washington state, as well as a body disposed of in New York state," Assistant US Attorney Kevin Feldis said after the press conference, according to Reuters.
FBI Special Agent Mary Rook told NBC station KTUU that Keyes was considered to be a serial killer by the FBI and that most of the crimes happened in different states.
"We've developed information that he was responsible for multiple additional victims. To our knowledge there are no other victims here in Alaska. They're all in the Lower 48," Rook told the station. "We do know he traveled extensively and he didn't always stay where he landed. He would land in one airport, rent a car and drive hundreds of miles,"

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Were there a measure for hyperbole, it would have flown off the register when Foxtel finally unveiled the details of its long-awaited digital television service last week.
The "totally new service" (their words) marked "the most significant change (in Australian television) since the launch of Foxtel and, before that, colour TV," proclaimed Foxtel boss Kim Williams.
"Today, we sow the seeds of a genuinely liberating digital television revolution for consumers in Australia," he said.
Foxtel Digital is expected to become available in the next few months, when existing subscribers will be asked to pay a "modest" though as-yet-undisclosed fee to move to the enhanced service. The 50-channel analog service will continue to run for 21/2 years. Use it or lose it is the unspoken message.
More than 130 channels have been promised for the launch, including interactive sport and news channels, movie-on-demand, games, audio music channels and an array of "time-shift" channels - select popular channels on a two-hour delay.
Increasingly, programs will air in widescreen with improved picture and sound
Sky News Active will feature multiple screens and offer viewers the opportunity to customise news stories, while interactive applications on sport broadcasts will enable viewers to select camera angles, replays, statistics and choose alternative commentaries.
Foxtel Box Office will offer 30 recent blockbuster movies, starting every 15 to 30 minutes, though this near-video-on-demand service extends only to movies six months after they have been released in video shops, and six months before they are scheduled to air on premium movie channels such as Showtime and Movie One.
It is not clear which studios will make their movies available on this service or the cost.
Ten channels will be dedicated to time-shifts of established and popular channels (including Fox8, Arena, Lifestyle and UKTV) and another 30 will carry audio music channels. Of the new channels, most are extensions of well-known and established television brands.
Discovery will launch its Health, Science, and Travel and Adventure sister channels, Lifestyle has a channel dedicated to food and cooking programs, children's channel Nickelodeon has the pre-schooler Nick Jnr to complement Cartoon Network's ankle-biting sibling Boomerang (classic cartoons from the Hanna-Barbera library), National Geographic's Adventure One (which is already on Optus) moves to the digital service, while three new music channels, including MTV offshoot VH1, will make their debut.
Gossip and entertainment news finds a new home with the arrival of E! Entertainment, there will be extra documentaries with the Biography Channel (much of whose programming is on the History Channel), while LA-based Tech TV, a 24-hour channel dedicated to technology and cutting-edge news and entertainment, will be beamed into Australia.
New sports channels include FUEL, devoted to freestyle action and extreme sports, and Eurosportnews.
Missing from the announcement was the significant question of how much subscribers will pay for this so-called liberation. The entry package is pegged at $48.95 for the next two years, which is the cost of a basic package for satellite customers (though a sharp increase for cable homes) but the line-up of channels included in this, and how much customers will have to shell out for add-ons such as movies, sport, documentary and general entertainment channels is yet to be announced.
Williams, who hopes to increase penetration from its 23 per cent of Australia's 7 million households to 35 to 40 per cent by 2008, clearly hopes to emulate the success of Britain's BSkyB. BSkyB's 7 million subscribers pay on average 25 per cent more each year than they did before the digital conversion. Sky earns an average of $880 a customer each year. Sky's initial offering of 140 channels mushroomed to 400, and Foxtel aims to continue adding channels and expanding its video-on-demand service as the digital service takes up.
Significantly, Williams's revolutionary vision applies less to innovation in programming and content than it does to handing viewers choice, convenience and appealing add-ons, for which he hopes customers will pay a premium.
However, beyond the hard sell and hype - apart from bringing primetime in Western Australia in line with the rest of the country, a program on a "time shift" channel is in reality a repeat; four Discovery channels will certainly not amount to four times more content - there is one trump card in the Foxtel armoury.
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f Disease burden due to Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (group G and C streptococcus) is higher than that due to Streptococcus pyogenes among Mumbai school children
- Authors: Pallaval V. Bramhachari1, Santosh Y. Kaul2,3, David J. McMillan3,4, Melkote S. Shaila1, Mohan G. Karmarkar2, Kadaba S. Sriprakash3,4
1 1Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 2 2Department of Microbiology, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India 3 3Bacterial Pathogenesis Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia 4 4Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
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- First Published Online: 01 February 2010, Journal of Medical Microbiology 59: 220-223, doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.015644-0
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Streptococcus pyogenes [group A streptococcus (GAS)], a human pathogen, and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis [human group G and C streptococcus (GGS/GCS)] are evolutionarily related, share the same tissue niche in humans, exchange genetic material, share up to half of their virulence-associated genes and cause a similar spectrum of diseases. Yet, GGS/GCS is often considered as a commensal bacterium and its role in streptococcal disease burden is under-recognized. While reports of the recovery of GGS/GCS from normally sterile sites are increasing, studies describing GGS/GCS throat colonization rates relative to GAS in the same population are very few. This study was carried out in India where the burden of streptococcal diseases, including rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, is high. As part of a surveillance study, throat swabs were taken from 1504 children attending 7 municipal schools in Mumbai, India, during 2006–2008. GAS and GGS/GCS were identified on the basis of β-haemolytic activity, carbohydrate group and PYR test, and were subsequently typed. The GGS/GCS carriage rate (166/1504, 11 %) was eightfold higher than the GAS carriage (22/1504, 1.5 %) rate in this population. The 166 GGS/GCS isolates collected represented 21 different emm types (molecular types), and the 22 GAS isolates represented 15 different emm types. Although the rate of pharyngitis associated with GGS/GCS is marginally lower than with GAS, high rates of throat colonization by GGS/GCS underscore its importance in the pathogenesis of pharyngitis.
- Keyword(s): RF, rheumatic fever, RHD, rheumatic heart disease, GGS/GCS, group G and C streptococcus, GAS, group A streptococcus
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Robin Williams Tribute Set for OPRAH: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Tonight
In an all-new episode of the popular series "Oprah: Where Are They Now?," Oprah Winfrey interviews Pat O'Brien; plus, updates with Janice from "Friends," heartthrob Jack Wagner, Chris Burke from "Life Goes On," and Oprah's favorite moments from Robin Williams' 14 appearances on the 'Oprah' show, airing tonight, August 24 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
More than 16 years ago, Pat O'Brien was once at the top of the entertainment news world, hosting "Access Hollywood" and "The Insider." In 2005, however, his image and career were tarnished forever when a drunken Pat left a series of sexually explicit voicemails that were released to the media. Now, in a one-on-one interview with Oprah, the newscaster talks openly about his alcoholism and recovery, the downfall and rebuilding of his career, and his new book "I'll Be Back Right After This." Then, Maggie Wheeler landed one of the most notable recurring roles in television when she was cast as the funny, fast-talking New Yorker with a big laugh, Janice, on "Friends." Maggie opens her home to introduce her husband and two daughters, and share whether she feels playing Janice helped or hindered her career. Next, "General Hospital" heartthrob Jack Wagner was part of one of the most iconic daytime television couples of all time, Frisco and Felicia. Today, he opens up about his divorce with on-screen love, Kristina Wagner, meeting his long-lost daughter for the first time, and his music career. Plus, an update from Zach Ferris, the young boy whose violent tantrums had his family afraid for their lives. And, "Life Goes On's" trailblazing actor Chris Burke, now 48 years old, at his home in New York City talks about the potential in everybody and his work giving back through the National Down Syndrome Society. Plus, a sneak peek of the groundbreaking OWN docu-series "The Specials," a fun, honest story about five housemates with intellectual disabilities who share the ups and downs of their daily lives from first love to heartbreak, from leaving college to finding a job. Finally, the episode will feature a tribute to the beloved comic genius Robin Williams with favorite memories from his 14 unforgettable appearances on the "Oprah" show.
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Chris: I'm home here in New York City. I'm 48. I turn 49 about this month. It's real great to be known on TV. I had the opportunity to do something that I always want to do and now I have done it. It really shows we all have different talents and stick what you're good at. It's not about performing disabilities. It's about performing abilities that's the message.
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TUBA CITY, Ariz. Ryne Hemstreet's gold medal is displayed in the trophy case in his family's living room in this Navajo town of 8,225 near the northern Arizona border.
The aspiring 17-year-old baseball player, named after former Chicago Cubs great Ryne Sandberg, won it in Denver as a shortstop and pitcher for Arizona's 16-and-under Native American team in July's North American Indigenous Games, an Olympic-style event that attracted 7,200 athletes from the USA and Canada.
Hemstreet wants more. That's why, after his upcoming junior season at Greyhills Academy, a local tribal grant school where he carries a 3.7 grade-point average and ranks seventh in his class of 124, he will move to Phoenix. He'll live there with his older brother and play his senior year at a higher-profile high school in hope of attracting college scholarship offers.
He's aware of the long odds he and other Native American athletes face, even those who leave their reservation to improve their chances of being recruited. Compared with white Hispanics and black non-Hispanics, Native American athletes among the country's 562 federally recognized tribes — 341 in the lower 48 states — are more under-represented on NCAA teams.
"As a Native American, nobody takes you too seriously that you can play at that level," Hemstreet says. "It's my job to go out and get noticed."
For most Native Americans, that concept — standing out individually — is at odds with their culture, which promotes the principle of functioning as a group. That, says Ron Trosper, a Harvard-educated member of the Flathead tribe in Montana who is associate professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, hinders the advancement of Native American athletes, starting at the college level, where individual achievement is rewarded.
"It appears to be aggressive to many Native Americans to be individualistic in the college classroom," Trosper says. "And it's not rewarded. And it may not be rewarded on the playing fields to the extent it would be in the Native American community."
A high school dropout rate of 40.7% dead-ends the careers of most Native Americans. Those who do move on to college athletics "are typically not prepared," says Gene Keluche, a Wintu from Northern California and founder and chairman of the Native American Sports Council, whose mission is to identify elite athletes and provide assistance for development.
"Their coach's objective is to win state. Their counselor's objective is to put them through high school. They are not prepared to go beyond that, academically or culturally. And if they go, they often don't perform well and come home and get into a dysfunctional community where unemployment is 60% and drug use is high. They have no future and become a statistic."
Native American athletes face those hurdles and the highly competitive world of sports participation after high school.
Native American sports leaders are trying to address this but are doing so with largely disjointed efforts and sporadic financial support. Their goals — more college athletes and inclusion in the Olympics as a sovereign nation — are lofty but face an uphill climb, even with the 1990s explosion of a $22 billion Native American gaming industry operated by 223 tribes in 28 states. Those revenue, 55.5% of which are generated by 20 tribes, mostly have been aimed at addressing social issues — a poverty rate of 24.7%, rampant diabetes, alcohol abuse — that far overshadow sports.
The Seminole, Seneca and Fort McDowell Indian Reservation tribes contributed almost $400,000 to the North American Indigenous Games, which were largely financed by the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute tribes in Colorado. They donated $2 million, mostly from oil, gas and water rights payments. The $5.2 million event, however, produced a $500,000 shortfall.
A handful of tribes have used gaming dollars to plunge into sports ownership. However, even the Mohegans, who own the WNBA Connecticut Sun, and the Southern California Sycuan tribe and South Florida Seminoles, both of whom promote professional boxing, have directed limited money into sponsoring professional Native American athletes.
Ernie Stevens Jr., from the Oneida Tribe in Wisconsin and chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association, kicked off a campaign in April 2006 to raise $10 million for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Indian Country and the American Indian College Fund, but his target is "sports and fitness overall," not individual athletic advancement.
Golfer Notah Begay III, a Stanford graduate and the first Native American to win on the PGA Tour, says these efforts are not enough. "Until you see a consolidation of resources and communities between successful tribes that have the opportunity to make a difference," he says, "we're still going to struggle in the battle to get Native Americans on Division I playing fields."
Strong sports history
Begay is the biggest role model among aspiring Native American athletes, whose struggle to reach the elite level drips with irony. This is a culture that set up shop in sports long before the first baseball or basketball games were played in the 19th century. Native Americans, in partnership with their First Nations cousins in Canada, claim to have originally played in some form what are now 10 Olympic sports, including canoeing, kayaking, sledding and field hockey. Lacrosse is another Indian original.
In the 20th century, Jim Thorpe, a Potawatomi, won two Olympic gold medals, played professional baseball and football and became the first president of the league that would become the NFL. Billy Mills, a Sioux who came off the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, scored one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history when he won the 10,000 meters in 1964.
Mills says it's easy to identify the problem: "We're the freest country in the world, and we (Native Americans) live under quasi-apartheid. Indirectly, we're locked outside — and that's where all the issues come from."
Providing solutions isn't so easy.
Navajo distance runner Brandon Leslie is among several Native American 2008 Olympic hopefuls, but his battle for financial backing is typical of top-notch Indian athletes.
Maurice Smith, an advocate with the Native American Sports Council, which is a member of the United States Olympic Committee, says, "I can't raise a dollar for this kid because nobody believes in his passion and understands here's the next Billy Mills."
Leslie left a reservation in Gallup, N.M., and became an NCAA Division II All-American and the 2000 Division II 10,000-meters champion at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo. His best time in the event is 28:36.52, and he competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic trials.
Smith says Native American athletes don't lack drive or talent. "The perspiration is there. The commitment is there. We need to continue to be resilient and provide more opportunities."
Healthy sports participation — and a fanatic following for basketball — vibrates on most reservations coast-to-coast but not beyond. That could change if the Native American Olympic Steering Committee's bid for Olympic inclusion succeeds. Bid organizers want International Olympic Committee recognition as a sovereign nation, which would allow Native Americans and First Nations athletes in Canada to compete in the Games as their own North American Indigenous team. However, Jeff Howard, a USOC spokesman, told The (Portland) Oregonian last winter that the USOC is recognized by the IOC as the "steward" for the Olympic movement in the U.S. "And only one entity within a nation can have that distinction."
Harder road for women
Hemstreet may never benefit from this quest. But he has one of his own — getting an opportunity to play baseball in college, if not beyond. It's an enormous challenge, even 110 years after Louis Francis Sockalexis, a Penobscot, became what many historians believe is the first Native American to play major league baseball. (He played three years, all for the Cleveland Spiders.)
Hemstreet's coach, Shawn Deschenie, has put baseball on the local map since taking over the program at Greyhills Academy in 1999, but, as at most Native America high schools, basketball is the No. 1 sport here. The boys team was state runner-up in its class in 2005 and plays in a gym recently renovated for $112,000.
The school's nine sports teams operate on a shoestring budget funded by a $25,000 federal grant, ticket revenue and fundraisers, but the athletics department is by no means destitute. Among several buses, the school owns one with a VCR and TV for trips as much as 3½ hours away.
Baseball was a natural for Hemstreet. His father, Jonathan, became a loyal Cubs fan once cable TV arrived on the reservation in the 1980s. Jonathan Hemstreet, 45, is a civil engineer who doubles as Deschenie's volunteer assistant coach.
Ryne's brother, Kyle, 26, also is an assistant coach and teacher at Greyhills who left the reservation and played college baseball at Kansas Wesleyan. Ryne calls Kyle his role model.
There aren't many athletic role models on Native American reservations, male or female. Female athletes have an even more difficult mountain to climb.
"You are a minority within a minority," says Cara Currie-Hall, a Montana Cree who is the most influential woman in Native American sports as a board member of World Indigenous Nations Sports, founder of the North American Indigenous Games. "For Native American women in sports, it's not very good."
The road for both sexes is fraught with athletic speed bumps, if not academic or alcoholic dead-ends. At Greyhills, less than 5% of the graduating seniors go to college, acting principal Marie Morales says.
"We have students who have done well at high school competition," she says, "and you'd think that would be the gateway to higher education. But for some reason, the life is only up to high school."
That's the rap on Native American athletes from college coaches and professional scouts. "They're very timid, shy and not real comfortable out of their element," says Yavapai (Junior) College baseball coach Sky Smeltzer, who has had six Native Americans play for his school in Prescott, Ariz. "The hardest thing for them is being away from the reservation and comfort zone they have there."
Begay, who got an economics degree at Stanford, says, "An investment in a Native American athlete might not be the wisest choice."
He returned to his tribal community outside Albuquerque and started a foundation in 2005 to heighten awareness of diabetes and promote a healthy lifestyle. He also started a soccer program.
"It's my job," Begay says, "to make sure those who come after me can stand on my shoulders and see farther and reach higher. We need to see more kids in Division I and more graduating."
Getting the word out
It's all about exposure, Deschenie says. Only one college recruiter (from Haskell Indian Nations University, an NAIA school in Lawrence, Kan.) has ever visited Tuba City, he says, so he takes his top players to the recruiters. Last summer he took six players to a Yavapai baseball camp and coached the 16-and-under team in Denver.
Hemstreet is proud of the gold medal the team won. So is his close-knit family. He shares a room with his 11-year-old sister, Tara. Kyle lives a couple of miles away. Annette, their mother, teaches health and physical education at Greyhills and coaches cross country. And Ryne's paternal grandparents live across the street.
They all come to watch him play, but that will change next season if he moves to Phoenix. Ryne, who also plays for two traveling teams out of Payson, Ariz., doesn't expect smooth sailing, but he says, "It's a better chance to be seen. This is what I've always dreamed of."
They are dreams with a price tag too stiff for many Native Americans. Even for those who succeed. Kyle's modest success, his father says, isn't something you brag about on the reservation.
"We try to low-key it," he says. "When you're part of the Navajo Nation, it seems like us Indian people, we don't want people getting too high up here. As soon as somebody sees somebody up here, they try to bring them down."


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Part of Guy Ritchie's 'Sherlock Holmes' possible story details have been uncovered and from what is written, villainous Lord Blackwood is a serial killer.
As "Sherlock Holmes" is undergoing its principal photography in London, possible story details of the Guy Ritchie-directed drama thriller have been leaked out. Getting the story from one of its readers named "Jack the Ripper", IESB teased parts of the details, noting that the movie will be set in 1891 London and opened with a narration by Dr. John Watson.
More on the story, it is revealed that there will be a foot chase into an underground sewer and a fist fight with a group of bowler-hat-wearing baddies as well as a seven-foot giant. Through the plot details, it is also uncovered that villainous Lord Blackwood is actually behind the death of five butchered women and Sherlock Holmes manages to get a hold of him for justice. The complete story can be read via IESB.
Aimed for a November 20, 2009 U.S. release, "Holmes" reportedly is based on Lionel Wigram's upcoming comic book and centers on the adventures of the famed 19th Century detective. In the film, the popular deerstalker-capped detective to be played by Robert Downey Jr. will be portrayed more as an action hero. Jude Law will be seen as Watson, while Rachel McAdams is playing Holmes' love interest Irene Adler.


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The Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel and Shula's 347 Grill in Jacksonville, Florida select Bulk TV & Internet to provide DIRECTV television programming throughout the property.
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Marie Causey
War - Poem by Marie Causey
Johnny stood besides his brother
crying Tommy look after mother,
He was going to fight a bloody war
tears fell as he walked out the door
His mother prayed all night for peace
asked the lord to let the gun fire cease
innocent children taken from this life
pain, explosions, sharp cuts the knife
dying men decay in the ground
A solution to peace has to be found
no more explosion, gun fire must end
love one's enemies, peace dear lord send
A future safe, hope in our life
no more crying mothers, or widowed wife
End it lord Jesus, end it all here
bring world peace, end every races fear
Johnny died fighting in a bloody war
a waste of life WHY LORD WHAT FOR?
his mothers heart broken, she too died
a bridge to peaceful lands too high and wide
Comments about War by Marie Causey
James S Newcomb Lang (7/26/2012 1:35:00 PM)
I found you by chance while perusing comments on someone who asked me to read their work. This is a subject I know all too much about, as I'm currently serving as a combat Medic in Afghanistan and have previously in Iraq too. I thought your poem an excellent representation. When I have time, I'll read more of your entries. Kind regards
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Vipins Puthooran (1/4/2012 6:32:00 AM)
I relish reading this poem/ war brings us nothing but only loses///
A fantastic poem)) (Report) Reply
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03 Z4, couple of problems.
My Z4's been giving me a couple of issues as of late, and I was hoping some if you had some insight into the matters.
Firstly, my car has been having some performance issues. I only really notice this one when I downshift into 2nd (no other gear has done it) and accelerate. The car bogs for a slight moment before it begins reving up. It's only a couple fractions of a second, but it happens pretty frequently. Checked the spark plugs and coils, and all visually checked out. One thing of note is that the Coil in cylinder 2 is not the original, like the other 5, and a check engine light a bit ago noted a misfire in cylinder 2.
I tested the problem about a week ago and upon returning I noticed that my intake boot had a gaping hole in it. We replaced the part, and it ran significantly better, but the problem still remains, it's just not as bad.
I haven't ran it hard since replacing the intake boot, but before the car would seem to critically misfire in cylinder 2 with fuel cut off and go into limp mode.
Secondly, and this might be related to the first issue, but running the car around 75mph on the Highway, the car feels like the brakes are sticking on a bit for about 15 seconds, and then when I slow down the whole car starts shaking, I won't say uncontrollably, but rather violently, as if I had a flat tire without any pull to one side. Both times it's happened, I've pulled off the highway immediately, and when I get into the gas station, turn the car off to check things out to find nothing visually wrong, and turn the car back on again, the problem goes away.
I did recently get a new set of tires on the car, and I don't really trust the guys who did it (bunch of crack heads at a local tire shop. They even chipped my wheel and I made them buy me a new one.) so that may be related, but turning the car off and on shouldn't fix the problem if it was tire related.
Lastly, and this one just started about 30 minutes before writing this, my fan would turn itself on when I turned the car off. It wasn't on when I had the car on before, and it turned off when I turned the car back on. However turning the car off turned it back on again, so this leads me to believe it isn't a stuck relay or anything of that nature. It's only done it twice, and leaving the car running for a minute or two made the problem go away, at least for now.
My car's been relatively reliable for a foreign sports car (aside from a rain water leak that my incompetent dealer spent about 5 months messing around with), but this seems to have all hit at once.
The car has around 73k miles on it, and I don't really drive it that hard. Any insight would be much appreciated!
First issue. Sounds like your vanos seals are bad
Second. After run fan. When you turn your car off your engine builds heat. The fan kicks on to cool it back down
I would install a fresh set of plugs. Then I would add a really good fuel system cleaner to the fuel system fill up with premium gas. Do this for the next 5 or so fill ups. Sounds to me like you got a lot of carbon build up in your engine. I had this problem with my 04 Z4 3.0i and it did the trick for me. My car now runs like new. It also sounds like your new tires are not balanced right. They will cause this problem if they are not balanced properly. These days they stick the balance leads on with double sided tape and they fall off most of the time. Mine did this also. Check your cooling system to make sure the water level is where it should be, it could be low. Good luck.
I agree you should change the plugs and get a fuel system cleaner. A clogged fuel filter can cause strange behavior. After filling up at a gas station near Vegas, the car died at 75 mph on the interstate. I restarted it and it drove alright for a few minutes, and then suddenly pressing the gas felt like I was putting on the brakes. This cycle repeated itself 3 or 4 times until I hit the next exit. I added a couple bottles of fuel system cleaner and physically shook the car to get it evenly diluted. I fired it up and the problem was gone. My dad (chemistry major) explained how the cleaner can bond with particles and safely unclog the filter.
You need fuel, air, spark, and timing to create power. If a new spark plug and coil don't stop the misfiring in cylinder 2, you may need a new injector, or the current one is clogged. If the fuel system cleaner doesn't do the trick, you might try swapping injectors and see if the problem persists.
By the way, Techron by Chevron is the cleaner....you can find it at any of the popular auto parts stores
How much of the fuel cleaner did you need to put i it, and how do you have to drive it once it is in? Cyl 2 in my 2003 2.5 z4 is misfiring. Its not the coils for sure.
As others have stated, I personally would replace the spark plugs and run a few tanks of fuel system cleaner through the engine if you are using the generic fuel cleaners.
The absolute BEST fuel system cleaner is something called BlueChem Fuel System Cleaner with number two being BG Products 44K. One treatment is usually sufficient to clean the entire fuel system. Then run a can of cleaner every 3000-5000 miles.
I replaced all the spark plugs. And switched the two coils to check if it was the coil that was making the cylinder misfire, but it continued in the same cylinder. I'm hope that maybe the injectors need to be cleaned and not replaced. I have read a few instances where the fuel cleaner also cleaned out the injector
Dude, before spending any more time and money go buy the fuel system cleaner and fill up with the best gas you can buy (93)
...then go run that car down some back roads like you stole it.
Rev it up hard, have fun. And remember, fuel sys cleaner ain't gonna do the work in 5 mins.
It might take a good half a tank to clean up the gunk but you will notice the difference once the stuff is out of the system. I use Techron every few tanks of gas and love it.
I hope I am not messing anything up. If so, please someone tell me....I don't drive the car but once a week, sometimes less than that. 2003 2.5 with 75K.
How many bottles do you put in it? And is it normal for it to run ****ty while in the process
One bottle in an empty tank should do it. But, If the car is gummed up pretty bad I would add the cleaner to the next few fill ups.I add fuel system cleaner to my tank at every fill up. Add it to tank and then fill up with a top grade gas. If it is not the coil misfiring than I would look at installing a fresh set of plugs. I got my plugs from my BMW Dealership and installed them myself . It is an esy job. Good luck and Happy Holidays !
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Hi everyone. Since I'm new here I just wanted to first make a introduction. My name is Jocelyn and I'm a mum of two wonderful children. My son is 4, and my daughter almost 10 months. I am a stay at home mum and also a student though I do my studies from home. My family is my first priority and I try to avoid being away from them as much as possible.
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Devine Stories
About Angels in Our Lives
My Very Special Angel Story
I'd like to share my very special angel story with you. At age thirty nine, I suddenly developed heart problems. The emergency room doctors had no idea what was happening to me, and after 5 hrs in ER I ended up in ICU. I was given a shot to help me sleep after all the trauma but I was too wound up to sleep.
I remember looking at the clock and it said 12:43 then everything went white. I saw the tunnel, I was in it! I was skyrocketing toward the light - beautiful, radiant, warm, loving light. I knew what it was and couldn't get there fast enough! But it seemed the faster I went the further away it became. I was told by someone that it wasn't my time, that I had to go back and finish my work on Earth. My own very special angel spoke to me. Then I heard my mother, who had been deceased for years, tell me the same thing - I had to go back.
The next thing I knew, I heard someone yelling "time" and someone saying "eight twelve."
I had died, literally at 12:43 and was gone for 8 minutes and 12 seconds. I was born on 8-12 at 12:43 am! I found this to be a bizarre coincidence. I didn't discuss my very special angel story with anyone.
After this dramatic event, it seemed I was alway there for people when they needed help the most. I took a very special friend from the edge of holding on to letting go, when she died of ovarian cancer. I will never forget our last conversation. She told me I had such beautiful angel wings!
"You can see my angel wings?" I asked.
I told her they weren't ready yet, that she would be getting a special set of angel wings when it was time. She smiled, and lapsed back into sleep. She awoke shortly after, and said, "Do I have my angel wings yet?"
I said, "yes, and they are absolutely gorgeous."
"Well, if we both have our angel wings," she replied, "why are we still here?"
I said, "we can go whenever you're ready."
She said "I love you" and I told her I loved her too, and she asked if it was okay if we left yet. I told her whenever she was ready was okay with all of us. She drew her last breath.
I will always remember this incident as very special, because she didn't see my angel wings, she saw my guardian angels' wings. I had prayed to God to send a very special angel to help me get through this. I know He answered my prayers and I know my special guardian angel was there.
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Ocean liner Celebrity Millennium will berth at the new Kai Tak cruise terminal on Saturday in a trial run ahead of its official opening in June.
The 2,100-passenger cruise ship, which set out from Singapore and stopped in Halong Bay, Vietnam, will berth in Hong Kong from Saturday to Monday.
It will use the city as a turnaround point, with some tourists ending their journey here and flying home, while others board the ship to begin their cruise.
It will be a chance for the terminal operator, cruise line and local tour agencies to test their operations, a government source said yesterday.
"They can test the berthing, navigation [from Victoria Harbour to Kai Tak] and replenishing of supplies," the source said.
But the main building and a bridge connecting to vessels are not yet finished. Immigration officers will have to board the ocean liner for passport checks.
And passengers' luggage will be handled in tents in an open area next to the berth, which the source said was not uncommon at overseas ports.
Coaches will be arranged to transfer passengers from the terminal to Kowloon MTR station.
Construction is continuing at the terminal, which is expecting Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas to berth there in three months. Although the first berth and main structures will be ready by June, it is unclear if all the interior fittings, communication facilities and immigration counters will be ready when the 138,279-tonne, 3,114-passenger cruise liner arrives, the source said.
The shops are not obliged to open until December, under their contracts with the operator. There are 16 bookings for the terminal from June to April 2014, but that is not considered enough. No cruise company has yet made Hong Kong its home port.


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2013 City Of Angels Singles Retreat
The City of Angels International Christian Church
Friday, October 11, 2013 at 8:30 PM - Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 2:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
A Place to Meet God and and Be Renewed Southern California's Christian Camp, Retreat and Training Center with the most unique setting — a stretch of private beach on Santa Catalina Island. Served by passenger ferries out of San Pedro, Long Beach, Newport Beach and Dana Point Harbors, the camp is conveniently located to major cities in Los Angeles, San Diego and Orange County. Located in a quiet, secluded cove on Santa Catalina Island, near Avalon California, Campus by the Sea invites its guests to step away from busyness and experience God's rest, steps from the Pacific Ocean. Accessible only by boat, the 70 acres of island wilderness is laced with wooded hiking trails and scenic coastal views that have renewed generations of Christ's disciples. **For more activity information please see the campus by the sea website** http://www.campusbythesea.org
Boat transportation times:
**Groups are expected to be at the Catalina Classic Cruises terminal at the bow of the Queen Mary near Long Beach an hour early**
Departure: Conference's departure aboard the Sentinel, located near the bow of the Queen Mary on Friday Oct 11 at 9:30pm.
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Discussion in 'Draft Zone' started by scrives, Feb 16, 2012.
That party wouldn't last a week, and not from being out of KY...(chuckling)
Always wondered why people in Kentucky made their jelly so slippery.
I can't deal with this today
theebs was who you were referencing, but I think Sdogo was referencing someone else.
I have an idea who he's talking about, but it's neither here nor there.
Your posts and information are much appreciated
I can't wait for your report Saturday
Same here!!
I think (from reading some posts) that there are folks out there who believe that info on the Cowboys on this board appears by magic and that those same folks feel entitled to that knowledge.They also believe that because it's freely available here, they can throw rocks at it, make personal insults about the poster and imply that the OP is full of el toro poo-poo.
The reality of it is that there are fans who spend ridiculous amounts of hours finding this information so the rest of us shmucks don't have to. There will be varying opinions on the credibility of the information, but I would hope that members of this forum will not forget that we are furtunate to get this stuff.
I'm sure that some insults will persist, and differences of opinion are inevitable. (Pass rush vs better Cb's, NT's and a 5T vs a shift to a 4-3 etc) I look forward to the debates. I'll even chime in. I don't spend much time on the personal insults. I'm sorry Theebs is gone. I hope we don't lose other good posters. SDogo, keep it coming, and BTW, use a harness on the lab.
All you have to do is bookmark his YouTube channel and you'll have access to the vids.
I never understand why people can't just read a post, agree or disagree with it, and move on. If you have a compelling argument, post it, if not go about your day. SDogo and many other people on here provide quite a lot of information that normally you would have to pay for. Enjoy that they are willing to post it for FREE. This board has more useful information about the Dallas Cowboys then any other place I have ever read. In fact, it is much better than the Dallas Cowboys own magazine and website. Enjoy it and stop attacking each other because they have a different opinion that you do.
But you also have to be able to make sense of what you see. That is the rub.
He's not posting raw footage of practices or something. No further editorializing is needed.
I always appreciate the feedback we get from both of them.
You can be sure Hos will have one pet cat from Arizona
Yeah, it's hard keeping control of those scenarios, isn't it??
........Nick Foles: QB.....looks the part physically and has a big arm, but didn't win a darn thing at 'Zona: would fit right in at VR!
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Wow. This is on ThinkGeek.com?? A classic yet modern watch. Besides the separate and unconventional seconds, hours and minute hands, the middle dial of the watch (which appears black in the photo) actually conceals a regular, clean, hour dot-markers dial. As the second hand rotates, it turns a top, clear plastic piece that's polarized (like your sunglasses). This makes the dial fade from crystal clear, to a darker, darker, twilight shade (hence the name) until it is night-black. Then, 20 seconds (and rotations later) it goes in reverse - from complete darkness to perfect clarity. This goes on and on, dark to light, light to dark. It's jewelry in motion. While how it works might be geeky, it's a modern and surprisingly cool looking watch. The leather band has no visible lugs, so it meets the watch case seamlessly, like a bracelet. The case is made with a sleek, matte aluminum finish. All the marker hands are different shapes. And it's an understated 36 mm in size, letting the watch itself shine without shouting. To truly appreciate the watch in motion, watch the video on their site. $120. UPDATE: Figures this isn't a ThinkGeek exclusive. It's from the Projects Watch Co., by designer Daniel Will-Harris - maker of the also modern and cool 'Reveal' Watch, among others. Check out the included pics for close ups of each phase.
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The president spoke by phone Friday morning to Miami Y100 radio host Michael Yo, and the first question Yo asked was about the Nicki Minaj-Mariah Carey dust-up.
Asked if he should step in to resolve the matter, Obama replied, "You know what, I think that they are going to be able to sort it out. I am confident. I am all about bringing people together, working for the same cause. I think both outstanding artists are going to be able to make sure that they're moving forward and not going backwards."
What else did the leader of the free world have to say about the reality TV fracas?
Obama continued to respond with a politician's tactfulness when asked which of the two singers he prefers. "Mariah, she's actually done some events for us, and I've gotten to know her and Nick [Cannon]. She's a wonderful lady," he said. "Nicki I don't know, but I've got her on my iPod."
Yo also asked the president how he might fare as an Idol contestant. "You've heard me sing some Al Green," Obama acknowledged. Nonetheless, he added, "I'm going to try to keep my day job." (Hat tip to Extra.)
Obama supporter Jennifer Hudson has added her voice to the growing chorus of reality TV and music insiders who think that the feud is little more than a staged publicity ploy. "I don't believe it," the Idol finalist-turned-Oscar-winning actress told TMZ over the weekend."I think it's just for ratings for the show."
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By Tom Haymes
As I ponder my class in the upcoming semester, I am left with a serious conundrum. What is the role of the textbook in a New Media teaching environment? In the age of information abundance the textbook is a gilded box for information. Its monetary cost to students is significant, yet its benefit is questionable. While content is important, I question if textbooks, especially basic-level textbooks, provide an essential source of that content.
Furthermore, the number of students willing to engage with the traditional textbook format has never been high and may be dwindling as other, more accessible learning materials become available. My father, also a professor, always used to say that if the CIA ever wanted to hide national security secrets, they should put them in professors' syllabi. No one would ever read them. I am often tempted to extend this joke to textbooks. We should therefore ask ourselves whether there is anything in this box central to the success of our students; if not, what should replace it?
The fundamental mistake here – like with many technologies we deal with – is confusing the means with the ends. The technology that is the textbook itself becomes an object. Professors are wined and dined by publishers. Authors are trotted around. Doctrinal battles emerge over one textbook versus another. Parallel to this, legislators, parents, and students complain about the costs involved. At a public community college, the cost of textbooks can often exceed the cost of classes. Yet very little of this discussion centers on the central question of whether textbooks contribute materially to 21st Century educational needs.
As someone who occasionally teaches a basic US/Texas Government course, I find that the content of basic textbooks is easily replicable. While I realize that there are significant differences in structure and emphasis between one American Government textbook and another, there is very little pertinent information that cannot be found elsewhere for free. Furthermore, in a course with rapidly changing content such as government, electronic information is more likely to be dynamic and up-to-date than anything in a printed book.
In subjects where there is little change in a 101 course, such as English Composition, Math or Science, I don't see a lot of reason to constantly come out with new editions other than as a moneymaking exercise for the publishers. The argument here usually centers on providing new pedagogical tools to the instructors and, while this may have some utility, in the end none of these tools will replace the instincts of a good teacher. In other words, the demand for new editions relies on what are currently considered peripherals by the publishers and not on the actual content within the book.
Another fundamental issue here is dictating the narrative of a class. Experienced instructors who have developed strong narratives over the years often feel constrained by a narrative dictated by a textbook, which in many cases they don't control at all. New teachers, however, can benefit from the scaffolding a textbook offers as a way of establishing a narrative for the class. For many years after I started teaching, vestiges of the first textbook I ever used as an adjunct stayed in my class. Yet the textbook narrative itself rapidly faded into the background as I gained confidence in how I wanted to shape the flow of my instructional narrative.
As an instructor I've always looked past the textbook because it is only one of many possible means for achieving learning in the class. In many instances it is also a barrier, and when this happens, I have always been ready to turn my back on it (as I would any other technology). Initially, I did this in the form of supplemental readings, and for a while I had a substantial collection of readings to supplement what I perceived as the shortcomings of the text. Eventually, those supplemental readings came to dominate what I was trying to teach and the textbook assumed, at best, a secondary role.
As a full-time faculty member who has participated in the textbook selection process, my experience with technology led me to constantly feel constrained by the structure of the traditional textbook. In Government textbooks, there is often one book that has an excellent presidential chapter but a weak congressional one. I have never found a book that was equally strong in all areas and was perpetually frustrated by our choices in this area as a result. My first thought as a technologist was, wouldn't it be great if we could mix and match chapters to get the best out of all of the books? Some publishers offered this as a custom printing option, but it always significantly increased the cost to the students both in terms of initial cost and their ability to resell the books, and so it was dismissed as an option.
As time went on, I therefore found I used the book less and less to the point where the last time I taught, I told the students to not even bother with it. This violated several institutional rules, but it made little sense to me to force my students to buy a book the contents of which I would never test them on.
This brings me to another crucial issue around textbooks. An eternal struggle of educators is figuring out how to get students to read them in the first place and finding effective ways to demonstrate mastery of content. However, this ground is shifting as well. In many areas, memorizing content is increasingly irrelevant in a new media age where you can look up anything you need on demand.
I am very conflicted about this point because I recognize the importance of the discipline of internalizing a canon of content, and I believe that this goes to the core of what it means to be educated. I've read thousands of books in my lifetime, and I can recall important pieces of content from many of them (I'm pretty handy at Trivial Pursuit as a consequence). It is important to me personally to be able to retain knowledge; this is what makes me an educated person.
However, is this the most important thing I got out of college? I don't think so. My most important lesson from college and beyond was the ability to creatively play with ideas with rigor using critical thinking. True, I needed to accumulate and build a foundation of knowledge to do this. However, I often look up pertinent facts as time goes on and I move further and further from my college studies. I also use information gleaned from my reading habits to create the basis for analyses such as this one. However, these are, for the most part, things I have read recently, not something I read in my sophomore year of college.
In the end, therefore, getting students to play with ideas is what matters most, and very few basic textbooks do this effectively. Ironically, this is also where my students have their greatest deficits – probably because most of their education up to this point has revolved around basic textbooks. The teacher becomes the one who is ultimately responsible for teaching the rigor involved in thinking about important ideas and concepts such as who is responsible for the fiscal cliff or the general dysfunctionality of our government. More advanced books do contain important ideas, but the basic textbook rarely goes beyond the descriptive stage. New media offers more compelling ways of presenting such information. Also, students' curiosity is more easily stimulated when we push them to reach conclusions on their own rather than force-feeding them information via the mechanism of a textbook.
So that leaves me the fundamental question I started this thought exercise with: What exactly does the textbook do for me in the classroom in an age of information abundance? Do the negatives outweigh the positives? I believe they do.
However, this doesn't give me a clear path forward. I am tempted by the notion of using bare bones reference works and then building – or even better – having the students build on that foundation through the creative collection of information and knowledge from a diverse range of sources. This also has the advantage of forcing me to make information literacy a central component of my teaching strategy. I have not, however, found a trustworthy source of this type for Government.
This semester I am using Wikipedia and my own notes posted online as a starting point. I will then task students to consider questions like "Who is responsible for the fiscal cliff, the president, Congress, or someone else?" These will be collaborative efforts, and the output will be a combination of a presentation open to critical response as well as an online blog entry subject to comment and response.
I realize that this amounts to yet another experiment in combining open content with an attempt at provoking intellectual rigor. My past attempts have not been altogether successful. Students are too comfortable learning with textbooks. They provide an easy metric — read the textbook, and I will test you on what you read. So students are often confused by any deviation from that standard formula and frequently rebel. With that said, I go into this world with open eyes and in the spirit of iteration. I have not divined the final answer on this one (of course, I could say that about teaching at large, which is a good thing). For now, I'll just keep muddling through.
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About Tom Haymes
I have taught at HCC since 2001. In 2006, I became Instructional Design Coordinator at Northwest College and subsequently Director of College Educational Technology Services. Prior to working at HCC, I worked for several Internet startups in Austin, Texas where I filled roles as diverse as Project Manager, Business Intelligence Analyst, and Director of Marketing. My technical experience extends to 2 ½ years working for Apple and Motorola in a technical support and systems analyst role. My academic background is in political science where I have two Master's Degrees from Georgetown University. I have published widely in technical and non-technical areas including, most recently, my article entitled "The Three-E Strategy for Technology Adoption," which appeared in the December 2008 issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly. I have incorporated my political science background with an interest in military history to study the societal and cultural barriers to the adoption of technology.
I have a keen interest in photography which I have been seriously pursuing since 1981, which was also coincidentally the year I got my first computer (Apple II+ with 48K of RAM, yeah!). My photography website is at http://www.haymesimages.com.
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It seemed harmless enough: some neighbors who have a raspberry orchard, after trying one of our efforts at homemade limoncello, pressed us to take a pint or two of their own raspberries and make a liqueur out of it.
So, we took a two pints of fresh-grown raspberries (for all we know the berries were left at the end of the day after a farmer's market) and set to work. The Italian style of liqueur-making is shockingly easy to reproduce. It has these ingredients:
That's it. Very simply. Anybody should be able to do it.
We started with Smirnoff 100 proof vodka. 100 proof is a good place to go, in our opinion, because you end up getting a lot more liqueur and the higher alcohol content (we believe) helps soak up the flavors out of whatever you're using. So, easy as that, you pour the vodka into a jar, dump the berries into the jar after it, seal the jar, and then wait. The whole process takes about 3 minutes. The vodka immediately acquires some color. We put our raspberries in on September 19 and then took them out on October 19: exactly one month of maceration (soaking or infusing).
After a month of this less than benign treatment, the raspberries look pretty gross: kind of washed-out, pale pink. They've given their all to the liquor, which is now a bright Christmas-scarlet. One can't resist trying out the berry and we did. It tastes exactly like a bite of high-proof vodka. If that sounds fun to chew and swallow, you've found your thing. It's not our thing.
Now you have to do a little math. There's an "angel's share" at work, which we believe is actually the raspberries' share since the jar was sealed and the evaporated liquor had nowhere to actually go. The liquid going in was 750ml. The liquid coming out was 720ml. Presuming that the 720 is still 100 proof (probably not but we have no way of knowing otherwise), that leaves us with exactly 360ml of alcohol. Our target proof is 55. So, do a little math: divide .275 by 360 and you get a target final volume of 1,309ml.
We wanted to sweeten to about 20%, which will make it just barely a "crema" style liqueur: a bit on the sweeter side. So, you make a simple syrup of 1 part sugar to 1 part water. 20% of 1,309ml is 262ml so that's how much simple syrup we put in the bottle.
So having 720ml of macerated raspberry vodka and 262ml of simple syrup, the balance is going to be regular old water. We put in exactly 327ml of filtered water (thank you Brita). We put all of that together in a giant pitcher, stirred the daylight out of it and, technically, you're done.
Except there's a bunch of raspberry detritus in there. Ah, the perils of using all natural ingredients. Now starts the truly awful process: the filtering. There's no good way to do this that we're aware of. We use coffee filters because if you just use a fine-mesh filter you still have a great haze of "stuff" in the liquor. Coming out of the coffee filter it's a nice, clear color. This ends up being ridiculously slow, painful, and you end up using about 20 coffee filters. Our best guess is that the sugar clogs up the coffee filter, which makes us think a better program would be to filter the liquor right out of the raspberry infusion since you don't have to filter the simple syrup and the water. We'll try that next time.
But after hours of checking coffee filters during commercials of bad TV, you end up with about a bottle-and-a-half of raspicello. It looks great; and it smells ever so faintly like raspberries. Comparing the smell to Sotli Razberi vodka, it's not nearly as intense but we console ourselves by knowing it's all-natural. Really all-natural.
Adding a single vanilla pod (retail at about $5!) for even a few days adds a rumbling, basso vanilla aroma and flavor that nicely complements the raspberry. That, along with a longer infusion with raspberries (and a smarter filtration) leads to a more intense spirit. Where limoncello can be had for the price of a week or two of lemon zest, raspberries seem to take much, much longer… even 3 months in a dark corner might be best. We did an additional 8 weeks (and, just as we predicted, way easier to filter the liquor before adding more water and simple syrup) with the latter 2 with a vanilla pod and the spirit acquires a darker color and richer taste and aroma. More aging, more color and taste, we have to guess.
The final cost structure is interesting. One 750ml bottle of Chambord (a high-profile bottle of raspberry liqueur) is about $35 or $0.05 per ml. A bottle of Smirnoff 100 is $17; 2 pints of raspberries retails for about $5; and one vanilla pod is about $5. Let's just say a cup of sugar and some coffee filters ends up about $2. For about 1,200ml of homemade raspicello, we spent $29 or $0.02 per ml. So in a way, it's way cheaper if you need a lot of raspberry liqueur. But does one need a heckuva lot of raspberry liqueur?
It turns out, as we learned, you do if you're pouring shots at a party. Frozen shots of homemade raspicello turns out to be a great way to get a party started… and everyone wants a shot when they learn it's homemade. It took 17 minutes to drink the 8 weeks and $29 worth of labor.