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I have seen information that suggests the front seal onn the injector pump will wear and cause leaking fuel into the crank case making it lose pressure until the engine warms up and the seal swells. check the oil level to see if it is over full..
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Ok, a couple of possibilities are the glow plugs or glow plug relay. Glow plugs heat to start and also do what's called post heat to raise the cylinder temp until the block is warm. To see if they are not functioning, clip a test light onto one and switch the glow plug on to test the relay. This is a common wear item.it could also be a stuck EGR valve - If stuck open it run a very lean mix when cold. It's two bolts on the inlet manifold, pulls out and looks covered in soot - it should push in and spring out. Can be cleaned in carb cleaner, gasoline or alcohol and blown off with compressed air. Post back with more information after you look into the mentioned items.
egr valve is not stuck,its all clean and working fine
do you have any other suggestions?What about the thermal advance solenoid?I'm thinking its an electrical problem now ,not mechanical.
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text: You watch too much TV and you want your phone to be just as dazzling as the ones your favorite celebrities have and brag about? Well, remember those infamous bumper cases that made their way into the world along with the iPhone 4 in 2010? Some blinged out versions have made their way into the market, shaped and sized specifically for the new iPhone 4S. Crystal Rock has decided to glam the bumpers up by coating them in 24 karat gold and inlaying them with about 200 crystals. In this way, you dont have to dip your iPhone in gold, like other companies would offer, but it can be hugged..on one side by the glitzy bumper. The bumpers have been painted in 24k gold for 4 times, to make sure the gold sticks everywhere it matters, then 200 crystals were inlaid in the material to make sure it sparkles in every position you might hold it. Now, if you consider the golden hue is just too tacky, theres a silvery option with just as many crystals. The other version is chrome-colored and its also a bit lighter than the golden version. We assume it has something to do with the 4 layers of gold the first one needs to get to sparkle in the correct hue. The 200 crystals makes it just a lovely, and the price is 50 pounds lower than the golden one. The iPhone 4S Bumpers cost 299 pounds for the gold version and 249 pounds for the chrome version and they can be found in one of Londons most famous stores Harrods. Source: chipchick

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text: Show Hide image Politics 3 January 2013 Playing the long game Benefit cuts, Europe, gay marriage – 2013 heralds ever deeper divisions among the Tories and opportunities for Labour, but only if Ed Miliband has the courage to seize the initiative. Sign up for our weekly email * It got easier in 2012 to imagine Ed Miliband becoming Britain's next prime minister – but not at the same rate as it got easier to imagine David Cameron losing the next general election. The coalition is shedding credibility faster than the opposition is acquiring it. Labour enjoys a consistent lead in the opinion polls yet even senior figures in the party believe that this expresses contempt for the government more than enthusiasm for a clear alternative. The coalition subsists on grim acquiescence to its economic policy. Specific budget measures are despised but it is widely understood that some pain is inevitable. The belief runs deep that austerity is our penance for the sins of economic mismanagement committed by Labour. Smaller parties are mopping up spare votes. George Galloway's Respect Party snatched a byelection victory from Labour in March; the UK Independence Party has enjoyed a more sustained surge, jostling with the Liberal Democrats for third place in national opinion polls. The political pendulum that once swung at reliable intervals between left and right is lurching on every axis. Cameron failed to win a majority in 2010 because too many people in Britain – especially in urban parts of the north of England, in Scotland and among non-white communities – are culturally inoculated against voting Conservative. They doubt that the Tories can govern for the whole nation and suspect them of serving a wealthy few. Cameron won enough support to scrape in to Downing Street because a derelict Labour administration had forfeited the right to govern. The Liberal Democrats initially endorsed his claim to be a different kind of Conservative because it complemented their own belief that the novelty of coalition would lead to more profound political renewal. It didn't. Now Nick Clegg has an explicit strategy to cast the Tories as heartless reactionaries, needing frequent transfusions of compassion and moderation from their junior partners. A script of attack lines, ostensibly drafted for internal distribution but made public over Christmas, summarises the plan: "The Conservatives can't be trusted to build a fair society," wrote Tim Snowball, the Lib Dems' director of communications. "Until the Lib Dems got into government, no one could stop the Tories from looking after the super-rich who fund their party, while ignoring the needs of normal people who struggle to make ends meet." The Lib Dems have been pushing some variant of that message for over a year and it hasn't yet done them much good. That doesn't mean it is without effect in reinforcing negative perceptions of the Tories. To win outright in 2015, Cameron must find a way to woo voters who were immune to his nebulous patrician charm in 2010. His coalition partners actively conspire to stop him deliv - ering that reassurance. So do backbench Tory ultras, increasingly vulnerable to the seductions of Ukip-style, hard-right populism. They unwittingly corroborate the Lib Dem story that the Conservatives need dilution in parliament to keep their fanatical tendencies in check. There is a hard core of about 40 to 80 Conservative MPs who are, in effect, already in opposition. There is little Cameron could now do to neutralise their venom. Their ideological affinity with Ukip signals the emergence of something like a British Tea Party – a less extreme but similarly disruptive equivalent to the paranoid nationalist wing of the Republicans in the US. That tendency can only be provoked in 2013 by the Prime Minister's determination to legislate in favour of gay marriage. His angriest MPs see this policy as an act of aggression, aimed at reasserting the leader's cosmopolitan credentials in defiance of traditional Tory values. Even without gay marriage on the agenda, the anti-Cameron insurgency will be easily sustained by developments in the European Union. The Prime Minister has no intention of engineering Britain's exit from the EU or manoeuvring into a situation where departure looks inevitable (though that doesn't mean he won't end up getting there by accident). Cameron will have to deploy diplomatic realism in European negotiations in 2013. Brussels summits will continue to focus on the single currency crisis rather than British demands for bespoke membership terms, which look, from across the Channel, like an isolationist tantrum. To have any chance of being taken seriously by his Continental peers, he must postpone and ultimately abandon the demand that old treaties be smashed open and fistfuls of sovereignty grabbed back. That retreat, in the eyes of hardline sceptics back home, will be the ultimate betrayal. The British public may not be enthusiastic about the EU but voters will still be unimpressed by the sight of a governing party re-enacting an old civil war. Yet the Tories seem determined to revel in the quixotic passions that made them look unworthy of office in the mid-1990s. Of much greater concern to most voters and, by extension, the subject on which Downing Street strategists would rather focus their efforts, is the rising cost of living and the failure of wages to keep pace. There is no sign of that pressure lifting in 2013. Even if the headline growth figures settle on the positive side of the graph, the long stagnation in average pay – a phenomenon in evidence roughly since 2003 – will leave most households feeling no better off. The cruellest month Many will be hit by tax and benefit changes due to come into effect in April. Deferred cuts to child benefit and tax credits will kick in. As the squeeze on local authorities tightens, nonessential services will start to disappear and essential ones will look shabbier. The Lib Dems hope to win friends with their flagship policy of raising the personal allow - ance for income tax. April is when the additional money should start boosting pay packets for low-income families. That is also when council-tax reforms – and cuts to the support for those who can't pay – come into force. With the arrival of the new system, bills will be landing on the doormats of families that have never previously faced the levy. Many will already be struggling to keep their heads above water. In town halls across the country, this change is said to be a potential shredder of popularity on a par with the poll tax. Also in April, the cap on the overall level of benefits that any household can receive will take effect. George Osborne has sold this as a device to thwart those idlers whose lavish lifestyle on the dole is funded by the taxes of their toiling peers. In practice, the main outcome of the cap will be to deny housing benefit to poor families with several children and living in London, where rents are high even for miserable housing. There will be a forced march towards cheaper slums in areas away from the capital, where services will be strained and homelessness will rise. There is no guarantee that this displacement will change attitudes towards what has been a popular policy. It will certainly cause aggravation for local authorities and for the MPs who find their advice surgeries overflowing with benefit-cap refugees. There is an entrenched suspicion in much of the country that the social security system has been routinely corrupted to transfer scarce resources from the industrious to the idle. Exploiting that resentment is central to the Conservatives' political strategy as devised by Osborne, and 2013 will be the year that the Chancellor's judgement in that respect will be tested. His calculation is that Britain's appetite for welfare cuts is boundless and that Labour can be trapped into an unelectable defence of hated handouts for layabouts. Osborne plans to make parliament vote on a bill that will limit the proportion by which benefits can rise to 1 per cent per year for three years – a cut in real terms. He expects Ed Mili - band to oppose the measure and, in so doing, to dig himself into a hole. He envisages the opposition setting up camp on a pious lefty fringe from where the votes that decide marginal constituencies are beyond reach. Privately, some members of the shadow cabinet fear that he is right. Labour's opinionpoll lead reflects the aggregation of anti-Tory impulses drawn from the Labour core vote and left-leaning former Lib Dems. If sustained, that bloc could be enough to stop the Tories from winning a majority but it cannot win outright victory for Labour. To take his lead into commanding territory, Miliband has to appeal to precisely the segment of the electorate that Osborne thinks can be sealed off from Labour with benefit cuts. "It's obvious where our next set of votes has to come from," says one shadow cabinet minister. "It's all those people who don't trust us on welfare – it may not be comfortable, but that doesn't mean it isn't true." It isn't just Labour's record of benefit spending that holds the party back from sealing the deal with swing voters: those on low to middle incomes who feel financially exposed and politically neglected. They are just as wary of the last government's perceived laxness in controlling immigration, which they see as driving down wages, crowding British workers out of the job market and swamping public services. One of Miliband's earliest recognised accomplishments was to identify the "squeezed middle" as a social and economic phenomenon earlier than his rivals. In theory, those families surviving on modest means should be receptive to the Labour leader's call for a grand reordering of the way wealth and opportunity are distributed. They are likely to be hit hard when the April cuts commence and also to harbour resentment of a Tory high command drawn from the ranks of inherited privilege. Yet Miliband's soft-left sensibilities are less easily applied to the social attitudes that often accompany economic insecurity. There is no easy extrapolation from individual hardship to collective solidarity. On the contrary, austerity often drives conservative impulses. Miliband's gamble for 2013 is that voters will recoil from the social consequences of the cuts, seeing them not as the necessary price of consolidating the Budget but as a familiar symptom of Tory flint-heartedness. For that response to benefit Labour, the party needs a coherent account of how it would manage the same financial challenges in less brutal fashion. But neither Miliband nor Ed Balls wants to spell out speci - fic cuts that they would make in government – or coalition measures they would keep. When challenged about this reticence, Balls's allies point out that he has already signed up to a public-sector pay freeze, provoking the fury of the trade unions in the process. Any more detailed chalking-up of services for the chop would, according to the Labour leadership, tie the opposition's hands prematurely and concede the terms of that battle to the Tories. In a competition to prove who would be less squeamish about wielding the axe, the coalition parties have the obvious advantage. Senior figures in Labour think that this is a risk worth taking. Voices are often raised around the shadow cabinet table urging clarity about spending priorities as a precondition for getting the attention of voters who still don't trust the party with their money. Miliband has chosen another path. His conviction is that there is appetite for an entirely new way of talking about the challenge facing the country. It starts with the premise that the coalition destroys while Labour rebuilds. Under a groove This is the essence of the "One Nation" theme that Miliband set out in his 2012 party conference speech. It was an audacious raid on a Conservative idiom – Benjamin Disraeli's offer to heal class divisions – deployed as an attack on coalition policy and a projection of Labour ambition. There can be no overstatement of the importance of "One Nation" to Miliband's project. At their first meeting after the conference, shadow ministers were instructed to find ways to organise their portfolios under the new rubric. Miliband wants to fight an election in which voters ask themselves not which party flinches least when carving up scarce resources but which party most wants to unite the country in shared economic and social endeavour. Osborne's renewed assault on welfare in 2013 will provide an early and possibly decisive test of whether Miliband's ambitions are plausible. He thinks the Tories have blundered by failing to account for the numbers of people who receive benefits and also have jobs. They might not take kindly to the Chancellor's message that having the state contribute to their meagre incomes is a mark of moral depravity: scrounging, in other words. Labour hopes to present the below-inflation uprating of benefits as a "tax on strivers" – yet another Tory blow to the ambitions of people who want to get on in life and find the odds stacked against them. "When Ed talks about welfare it will be on his own terms and at a time of his choosing," says a close aide of the Labour leader curtly when asked whether Osborne's cuts will be accepted or rejected. As Miliband sees it, the trap can be circumvented by highlighting the cynical motives behind it. Labour, in that scenario, would decry the Chancellor's fomentation of discord at the bottom of the social ladder as cynical cover for his favours to those at the top. Osborne's decision last year to cut the 50p top rate of income tax is an endless rhetorical bounty for Labour. It is held up as a monument to twisted priorities; a policy for two nations – the rich and the rest. There are Labour MPs who struggle to see how Miliband's refusal to accept the terms of Osborne's trap is any different from walking blindly into it. Their fear is that the leader and some of his advisers are trying to make a point about the British electorate, proving that the country is more amenable to social-democratic messages than Tony Blair and the architects of New Labour thought possible. This notion, the sceptics fret, owes more to wishful thinking than evidence. That is certainly the view in Downing Street, where Miliband's strategy is seen as a re-enactment of Neil Kinnock's failed election bid in 1992 – an extended complaint about social in - justice that leads to confiscatory tax plans that will be rejected on polling day. Cameron's confidence is bolstered by opinion polls showing that the Labour leader is lagging in measures of strength and charisma. The Tories are pinning their hopes on a presidential-style campaign, inviting voters to consider which party leader has the courage to see through the task of consolidating the Budget. The message, in the words of one Cameron ally, will be "you can't change the general in the middle of a war", the assumption being that undecided voters perceive Miliband as an awkward and improbable figurehead in times of economic emergency. That obstacle will be hard to overcome, but Miliband now enjoys immunity from being written off. Most Tories and a chunk of Labour presumed that his elevation to the leadership in 2010 heralded a period of self-absorbed meandering in the wilderness of opposition. That it has proved otherwise is attributable substantially to the coalition's weird dedication to unforced error. The government has malfunctioned frequently and spectacularly enough to make Miliband look like a contender by default. But even his critics have been forced to accept that the Labour leader has stores of resilience. Politics is not indulgent of amateurs. Even with the advantage of having opponents who are self-harming, Miliband would not have survived and grown in stature as he has done without strategic intelligence to guide his response. Those Labour MPs and shadow ministers who stalked parliament in a sulk of defeatism at the start of 2012 are warily optimistic. What they once lamented as Ed Miliband's indecision they now concede might be the incremental advance of a man playing a long game. The less enthusiastic among them recall, however, that the last Labour leader in whom it was hard to distinguish between strategy and caution was Gordon Brown, under whom Miliband served his apprenticeship. There are still many gaps in the story Labour wants to tell about how it would run the country. There is no One Nation answer to the question of how we can afford to sustain public services in an age of tight budgets, or what a One Nation European policy would look like, or whether academies and free schools are part of a One Nation education policy. Miliband's policy prospectus still wilts under interrogation. The crucial advantage he has is that his party is united in willing him to succeed. The same cannot be said of Cameron. There are not yet enough rebels in the Tory ranks to unseat the Prime Minister, but there are enough malcontents who would take pleasure in watching him fail. That alone cannot secure Miliband's safe passage into Downing Street. The Labour leader has much to do if he is to look the obvious candidate to be Britain's next prime minister. Yet nothing about his career to date has been obvious. Miliband is a politician who seems to invite underestimation; so far it has served him well. Rafael Behr is political columnist at the Guardian and former political editor of the New Statesman Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 07 January 2013 issue of the New Statesman, 2013: the year the cuts finally bite More


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The markets held in a very tight trading range today giving day traders very little action to play with. We saw the major indices react differently during the morning session but, concluded that the Bears had control in the afternoon. At the close of trading today here is how the major indices stacked up: the DOW (Dow Jones Industrial Average) racked up a loss of 71.40 points to close at 12103.30; the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) followed the lead for a loss on the day of 43.82 points to close at 8813.73; the NASDAQ shed pre-afternoon gains to give up 8.93 points at the close to end the session at 2376.01; the S&P 500 (Standard & Poors 500 Index) moved lower by 7.39 points to end the day at 1378.33 and the RUSSELL 2000 gave up 7.78 points to end at 762.06 on the day. The FTSE All-World Index ex-US (top Large/Mid Cap aggregate from over 2,700 stocks from the FTSE Global Equity Index Series (GEIS) which covers 90% of the worlds investable market capitalization) moved lower by 0.26 to close at 229.67 and the FTSE RAFI 1000 moved lower by 26.47 points to close at 5730.53.
Comments released by former FOMC Chairman Alan Greenspan: Sarbanes-Oxley bill high cost for business; likely near peak for attainable profit margins; commodity prices no big deal for developed economy; globalization is a force for economic good; key for productivity is speed of implementation; hard to breach 3% productivity gain level; Democrats' win may not mean much policy change; jobs, incomes doing reasonably well; housing to be a smaller drag on growth; housing has seen 'fairly sharp contraction'; Sarbanes-Oxley may soon be reformed in Congress; sees current econ slowdown as temporary and U.S. Capital spending outlook 'positive.
Economic data released for the day:
BOE Announcement: Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee which consists of nine members meets for two days each month, during the first week of the month to determine the direction of monetary policy, in the near-term. BOE decided on a change of 25 basis points creating a new monetary rate of 5.0%.
Import and Export Prices: Goods bought in the United States but produced abroad plus goods sold abroad but produced domestically are compiled in an index which indicates inflationary trends in internationally traded products. September Exports came in at $123.16B with an increase of 0.5% and Imports came in at $187.46B for a drop of -2.1%; August Trade Gap was revised to $68.96 Billion from $69.86 Billion; September Trade Deficit came in at $64.30 Billion versus consensus $65.80 Billion; October Petroleum Import Prices fell by 8.3%; October Non-Petroleum Import Prices fell by 0.6%; Import Prices fell by 0.2% on the year which is the 1st decline since September 2002 and October Import Prices fell by 2.0% compared to consensus of a drop by 1.5%.
International Trade: Details of International trade measures the difference between imports and exports of tangible goods and services. As Imports may apply a draw on the economy, they also increase competitive pressure among domestic producers while Exports give a boost to domestic production. For September, Trade Balance fell by $64.3 Billion versus consensus of a drop by $66.0 Billion.
Jobless Claims: A weekly compilation of new unemployment claims to show the number of individuals who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time. The condition of the labor market is determined by an increase of the number of claims which suggests a deteriorating labor market. For week of October 28th, Continuing Claims rose by 43K to 2,448,000 and Jobless Claims fell by 20K to 308K for week of November 4th compared to survey of a drop by -12K.
Consumer Sentiment: 500 households are surveyed by The University of Michigans Consumer Survey Center, on their financial conditions and attitudes about the economy. The strength of consumer spending is directly related to consumer sentiment. University of Michigan 5-year Inflation Forecast rose by 3.0% with October rising by 3.0%; University of Michigan 12-Month Inflation Forecast rose by 3.0% with October rising by 3.1%; University of Michigan Mid-November expectations came in at 83.2 compared to October reading of 84.8; University of Michigan Mid-November Current Index came in at 106.5 compared to October reading of 107.3 and University of Michigan Mid-November Sentiment came in at 92.3 compared to October reading of 93.6.
Wholesale Trade: The dollar value of sales made and inventories held by merchant wholesalers is a measurement referred to as, wholesale trade. U.S. Wholesale Inventories rose by 0.8% in September.
EIA Natural Gas Report: Weekly information provided by the EIA (Energy Information Administration) on natural gas stock piles in underground storage in the United States and three regions of the country. Prices for natural gas products are determined by the level of inventories. Weekly change for week of November 4th came in with a drop by 7 Bcf.
On the commodities markets, the trend was higher across the board again today: Light crude rose by $1.33 to close at $61.16 a barrel; Brent Crude ended the day on Wednesday with a gain of $1.11 to close at $59.59 a barrel; Heating Oil closed higher by $0.04 to close at $1.75 a gallon; Natural Gas ended the day higher by $0.12 at $8.34 per million BTU and Unleaded Gas moved higher by $0.04 to close at $1.60 a gallon.
Metals ended the session nicely higher today: Gold rallied higher by $18.50 to close at $636.80 an ounce; Silver moved higher by $0.50 to close at $13.05 an ounce; Platinum rallied much higher by $33.70 to close at $1,201.00 an ounce and Copper ended the day with a gain of $0.06 to close at $3.31 per pound.
On the Livestock and Meat markets, the trend was mixed on the session today: Lean Hogs moved lower by 0.60 to close at 64.70; Pork Bellies closed lower by 0.35 to end the day at 90.68; Live Cattle moved higher by 0.43 to end the day at 85.88 and Feeder Cattle ended nicely higher today by 1.68 to close at 96.38.
Other Commodities: Corn shed 7.75 on the day to close at 350.00 and Soybeans fell sharply by 8.50 to close at 669.50.
Bonds were mixed across the board today: 2 year Bond closed flat with no change at 100 7/32; 5 year bond closed higher by 1/32 at 100 3/32; 10 year bond moved higher by 1/32 to end the day at 101 28/32 and the 30 year bond closed lower by 2/32 at 96 10/32.
The end of day results for the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) which is comprised of the total Exchange Volume for Futures and Options (EVFO) including Electronic, Open Auction and Cash Exchange ended the day at 3,276,205. Open Interest for Futures fell by 26,736 to close at 8,718,658 and the Open Interest for Options moved higher by 188,059 to close at 8,000,110 for a total Open Interest of 16,718,768 for a total gain on the day by 161,323. The mini Dow ended the session with a loss of 69 to close at 12139. The total Dow Exchange Volume for the day came in at 146,848 which are comprised of Electronic, Open Auction and Cash Exchange. Traders should review workshops available at the CBOT
(Chicago Board of Trade) Educational in-person seminars schedules available on CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade) website.
New York Stock Exchange movers for the day: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Company (CME) fell sharply by 9.43 points to close at $495.29; Scottish Power plc (SPI) fell by 3.86 points to end the day at $54.51; Potash Corporation/Saskatchewan (POT) fell by 4.27 points to close at $137.47; World Fuel Services Corporation (INT) moved nicely higher by 4.63 points to close at $47.57 and R.H. Donnelley Corporation (RHD) moved lower by 3.20 points to close the session at $60.01.
On the NASDAQ today, advancers came in at 1,040; decliners totaled 1,987; unchanged came in at 156; new highs came in at 122 which is same as yesterday and new lows came in at 47.
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Wasps, Hornets and Bees
Description: 13-25 mm in length; body mostly reddish brown to black with yellow rings and reddish areas on abdomen; wings reddish or amber brown.
Habitat: Fields, meadows, gardens and near buildings. Nests are free hanging and consist of a single layer of cells constructed out of wood and saliva with openings at the bottom.
Cicada Killer
Description: This large wasp has a rusty red head and thorax, russet colored wings, and a black and yellow striped abdomen. A length of 11/2 inches is not uncommon. The larvae are legless, white grubs and are found in burrows in the soil.
Host: Cicada killers do not feed on plants. The larvae feed primarily on paralyzed cicadas. The adult wasps feed on flower nectar.
Life Cycle: The cicada killer wasp overwinters as a larva within a cocoon in a burrow in the soil. Pupation occurs in the spring. Adults begin emerging in June and emergence continues throughout the summer. The adult female feeds, mates, and digs burrows for several weeks before preying on cicadas. A vertical or slightly angled burrow 6 to 10 inches deep and about 1/2 inch in diameter with broadly oval cells perpendicular to the main tunnel is excavated. The excess soil thrown out of the burrow forms a regular, U-shaped mound at the entrance.
Once cells have been constructed, the search for cicadas begins. Canvassing tree trunks and lower limbs, the wasp stings its prey, turns the victim on its back, straddles it, and drags it or glides with it to the burrow. Each cell is furnished with at least one cicada (sometimes two or three) and a single egg before being sealed off. The egg hatches two or three days later and the larva feeds four to ten days, until only the cicada's outer shell remains. During the fall, the larva spins a silken case and prepares to overwinter. Only one generation occurs each year.
Symptoms: In spite of its formidable size and burrowing habit, this wasp is unusually docile and harmless. Although capable of inflicting a painful sting, the female cicada killer wasp is usually difficult to provoke. Mating males are aggressive and more easily disturbed, but cannot sting. An unsightly mound of soil surrounds the burrow of each cicada killer. Since colonies of burrows are common, infested lawns usually contain several mounds that can smother the grass. However, since cicada killers prefer to nest in areas of sparse vegetation, it is likely that infested turf was already unthrifty when the wasps arrived. They rarely burrow in thick, vigorous turf. Burrows are most commonly found in ornamental beds or under trees or tall foliage plants where there are areas of bare soil.
Africanized Honey Bees
Description: Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) and European honey bees (Apis m. mellifera) are the same species - they look the same, sting in defense of themselves or their nest, can only sting once, and have the same venom. Africanized honey bees are slightly smaller (but because the bees look so much alike only a laboratory analysis can tell them apart). They also differ in that they respond more quickly and more bees sting, can sense a threat from people or animals 50 feet or more from their nest, sense vibrations from power equipment 100 feet or more from their nest, may pursue a victim 1/4 to 1/2 mile, remain agitated for an hour or more after an attack, swarm frequently to establish new nests, nest in smaller cavities and sheltered areas, and move their entire colony readily (abscond) if food is scarce. Away from the hive, however, they are no more defensive than other bees or wasps. They will not form large swarms and hunt for you.
Africanized honey bees (AHB) were first imported to the Americas in 1956 by the prominent Brazilian geneticist, Warwick Kerr. He thought there was a good possibility that he could utilize African stock to produce a new breed of honey bees, which would be less defensive than the wild African bees but which would be more productive than European honey bees (EHB) in Brazil's tropical setting.
Through selective breeding with European drones, Kerr and his associates had produced a number of first generation hybrids. In October of 1957 (according to Kerr), a local beekeeper wandered by, noticed the queen excluders and removed them. As the story goes, the removal of the excluders accidentally released 26 Africanized honey bee queens with small swarms into the nearby forest. Within a few years, reports began arriving from surrounding areas of wild bees relentlessly attacking farm animals and even humans. Many poor Brazilian farmers suffered livestock losses, and, eventually, there were human fatalities as well.
By the early 1960s, it was clear that a rapid expansion had occurred among feral bee colonies and that the Africanized honey bees were moving quickly into other parts of the country. Swarms of Africanized honey bees can move 60 miles or more at a time and build their nests in a variety of locations. By the 1980s, they had reached Mexico. On October 15, 1990, the first natural colony of Africanized honey bees was found in the United States, near Hidalgo, Texas.
During the second week of August, 2004, two samples of honey bees from Tillman County, Oklahoma were identified as Africanized honey bees.
Carpenter Bees:
Description: Carpenter bees are large, black and yellow insects about 1 inch long. They resemble bumble bees but the abdomen (rear end) is black and shiny and does not have the extensive yellow hairs found on bumble bee abdomens. The females can sting but rarely do so unless molested. The males cannot sting. Males have a yellow face while females have a black face.
Habitat: Carpenter bees cause damage to wooden structures by boring into timbers and siding to prepare nests. Carpenter bee nests weaken structural wood and leave unsightly holes and stains on building surfaces. Sound, undecayed wood without paint or bark is usually selected for nests; carpenter bees frequently attack dead wood on trees or lumber from southern yellow pine, white pine, California redwood, cedar, Douglas fir, cypress, mimosa, mulberry, ash, and pecan trees. They avoid most harder woods. The presence of carpenter bees around buildings and wooden structures can be annoying or even frightening; however, males cannot sting and females rarely attack. Carpenter bees are generally considered beneficial insects because they help pollinate various crop and noncrop plants.
Life Cycle: Adults overwinter in nest tunnels in wood. They emerge in the spring, usually in late April or early May, and mating occurs within a few weeks. The newly fertilized female establishes a nest by burrowing into wood at right angles to the grain for about an inch. The tunnel has clean-cut, sharp edges and is 3/8 to 1/2 inch wide. The entrance and tunnels may appear like they were made with a brace and bit. The female then makes a 90 degree turn and burrows with the grain, usually for 4 to 6 inches. When the nest is completed, she places a mixture of nectar and pollen at the end and lays an egg on it. This will be the food supply for the developing larva. She then seals off the cell with a partition of chewed wood pulp. This process is repeated until 6 or 8 cells have been formed. The female may build a new nest by extending an old nest, and galleries up to 10 feet long have been formed in some cases. Larval development takes 5 or 6 weeks and new adults emerge during the summer and fall. These new adults store pollen in preparation for hibernation but do not mate and do little if any nest building. Carpenter bees frequently return to the nesting site(s) during following years.


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TEHRAN, Iran — A pivotal presidential election in Iran ended in confusion and confrontation early this morning as both sides claimed victory and officers fired tear gas to disperse a cheering crowd outside the campaign headquarters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Just two hours after the polls closed Friday night, Iran's state-run news agency said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won the election in a landslide. But Mousavi, his main rival, charged that there had been voting "irregularities."
"I am the absolute winner of the election by a very large margin," Mousavi said during a news conference with reporters Friday night, adding: "It is our duty to defend people's votes. There is no turning back."
An hour later, the state news agency reported that Ahmadinejad had won the election with 69 percent and Mousavi had 28 percent. As the election commission announced new totals throughout the night, the numbers changed slightly, but the wide lead by Ahmadinejad did not.
The election commission is part of the Interior Ministry, which Ahmadinejad controls. Some lawmakers were already congratulating Ahmadinejad, and some of his supporters were celebrating in the streets, the agency said.
The conflicting claims, coming after an extraordinary campaign that saw vast street demonstrations and vitriolic televised debates, seemed to undermine the public legitimacy of the vote and to threaten unrest. In recent days, Mousavi's supporters were predicting a massive victory, citing voter surveys.
President Barack Obama said the "robust debate" during the campaign suggests change may come to Iran.
"You're seeing people looking at new possibilities," Obama said. "And whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help advance our ability to engage them in new ways."
Some analysts warned that Mousavi's supporters might take to the streets to protest today, despite a warning against any demonstrations by the deputy commander of the Iranian national police, Ahmadreza Radan.
When Mousavi's youthful supporters gathered after midnight outside his Tehran headquarters to celebrate his claim to victory, officers quickly dispersed them with tear gas, said Milad Afsarzadeh, a Mousavi campaign official inside the building.
He and other witnesses to the brief melee said it was unclear whether the officers were police or members of the Baseej, a paramilitary force of volunteers organized by the Revolutionary Guards and feared by student demonstrators. No serious violence was reported.
Ahmadinejad, who has been president since 2005, did not make any immediate statement, but his supporters pointed to the Interior Ministry's official tally to claim victory.
Mousavi's supporters charged that officials were trying to steal the election and cut off alternative sources of information. For several hours during the balloting, they said, international phone lines to Tehran were down and text messaging — which Mousavi's supporters had used to organize street rallies — was blocked. Members of the Baseej reportedly seized a building in North Tehran that housed several Web sites supporting Mousavi, which were shut down.
Fraud has been a prominent concern for Mousavi's campaign, with many of his allies warning that Ahmadinejad could use the levers of state — the military, the Revolutionary Guard, and the Baseej — to cajole or intimidate voters, or even engage in outright fraud. In 2005, Mehdi Karroubi, who is also a candidate in this election, accused the Baseej of rigging the vote in Ahmadinejad's favor after he was eliminated in the first round.
Mousavi called on the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to help the country reach a "favorable conclusion." Khamenei, who has final authority over affairs of state, appears to be the only figure who could mediate between the two camps in the event of an open confrontation over the vote.
While casting his ballot Friday, Khamenei had said that people were using texting to spread rumors, but it is unclear if that is why the services were shut down.
The discord capped a day of long lines at polling places across the capital. "We haven't voted in 10 years time," said Giti Ghioshfar, who was waiting with her husband to cast their ballots for Mousavi. "We are here because we want more freedom."
In Shahr-e Rey, south of Tehran, voter Ali Badiri said that young women without headscarves had been dancing in the streets over Mousavi's candidacy. "I'll vote for Ahmadinejad, because if Mousavi wins, they will be dancing naked next week," he said.
"We don't want to change Iran," said Abdollah Khalili, another Ahmadinejad voter. "We want this system to remain the way it is."


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Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reason
Lately I've been thinking about constitutional cases where the Supreme Court did something terrible but said something wonderful. The first example that comes to mind is Korematsu. The holding in that case upholding the mass detention of American citizens who were of Japanese descent is considered an embarrassment, but the opinion's statement that all racial classifications must be subject to "the strictest scrutiny" is now central to equal protection law.
How many other decisions are there that are like this? Another possibility in Gobitis, which upheld the mandatory flag salute for schoolchildren who objected on religious grounds but also (as I explained in a prior post) invoked the Bill of Rights in a way that broke new ground. Other nominees?


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What good is an associate degree? Plenty. Here are my five top reasons to get that associate degree:
- The bottom line: money
- The résumé line: accomplishment
- The employment line: credible, certified, job-ready skills
- The transfer line: Can you say "junior?"
- The life line: Nobody can take it away from you
1. The bottom line: money
You might be the next Bill Gates, who didn't finish college, but in the big picture, people with associate degrees make more than people with high school diplomas. They make more than people with "some college" (Bill Gates an exception). An associate degree in a career/technical field may help you find and keep a job. An associate degree for transfer is a step along the way to your bachelor's and advanced degrees, with added earning power. And the more degreed-education you have, the less likely you are to be unemployed. This chart from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the numbers:
2. The résumé line: accomplishment
On your résumé, it says you set a goal and met it.
3. The employment line: credible, certified job-ready skills
With an Associate of Applied Science and the certificates you picked up along the way, you are telling employers that your skills are up to date. You are job-ready.
4. The transfer line: Can you say "junior?"
With an Associate of Arts or Associate of Science, under the state of Colorado's Guaranteed Transfer Agreement and the added benefit of "60+60," your degree is guaranteed to transfer to the arts and sciences schools of any public college or university in Colorado. And "60+60" means you have junior standing and need only 60 more credit hours for a bachelor's degree.
5. The life line: Nobody can take it away from you
Maybe life happens to you along the way to your bachelor's degree. A move. An accident. A change in goals. You've got an associate degree, no matter what life puts before you.
Tell me, why do you think an associate degree is important?


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Surveillance of communicable diseases is a public health corner stone. Routine notification data on communicable diseases are used as a basis for public health action as well as for policy making. While there are agreed standards for evaluating the performance of surveillance systems, it is rarely possible to analyse the validity of the data entered into these systems. In this study we compared data on all Swedish cases of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) routinely notified between 2000 and 2003 with follow-up information collected for each of these cases as part of a public health project. The variables Reason for testing (clinical sample, contact tracing, screening of risk group), Clinical presentation (disease, colonisation), Transmission setting (healthcare-acquired, community-acquired), Country of acquisition (Sweden, abroad) and Risk-occupation (yes, no) were analysed for sensitivity, positive predictive value and completeness of answers. The sensitivity varied between 23% and 83%, the positive predictive values were generally higher (55% to 97%), while missing answers varied from 11% to 59%. The proportion of community-acquired cases was markedly higher when excluding either cases of MRSA colonisation or cases found through public health-initiated activities (contact tracing or screening of risk groups). We conclude that the quality of routine surveillance data may be inadequate for in-depth epidemiological analyses. This should be taken into account when interpreting routine surveillance figures. Whether or not the case definition includes cases of MRSA colonisation may have a significant impact on population-wide estimates of MRSA occurrence.
The overall aim of disease surveillance is to collect information for public health action. Disease control measures are costly both from a public health and from a healthcare perspective. For the healthcare system, diseases that spread nosocomially are particularly expensive. Disease control actions become more efficiently focused when based on valid surveillance data. However, it is rarely possible to assess the validity of notification data [1,2], and to our knowledge such an assessment has never been reported for any methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surveillance system. The epidemiology of diseases, such as MRSA, that can be transmitted both by symptomless carriers and by individuals with clinical infection is complex and their analysis requires a level of detail that can rarely be obtained from routine surveillance data. In contrast to most other countries [3-7], a comparatively lower occurrence of MRSA has hitherto been reported from the Netherlands and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) [8]. During the late 1990s, Sweden experienced a large regional outbreak of healthcare-associated MRSA cases, which was brought under control by resolute efforts [8,12,13]. The experience from this outbreak forms the basis for the active strategy against MRSA currently employed in Sweden, with extensive screening of risk groups and contact tracing around known cases (symptomatic cases as well as asymptomatic carriers), aiming at preventing further transmission of MRSA.
The low-endemic MRSA-situation in Sweden and the allocation of resources in the period from 2000 to 2003 to map the epidemiology of MRSA in Sweden in detail, made it possible to collect in-depth data on every case of MRSA notified in the country during that period. This was done in addition to the collection of routine surveillance data. The resulting detailed and unique dataset made it possible to fulfil the two aims of the present study, i.e. to analyse the quality of the data supplied within the routine surveillance system and to show how case finding activities and inclusion or exclusion of MRSA carriers in the case definition influenced the estimated occurrence of MRSA in the population.
Materials and methods
In Sweden, cases of clinical MRSA infection as well as asymptomatic carriage are notifiable by law to the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI). The notifications are made in parallel by the clinicians who diagnosed the patients and the laboratories that identified the pathogens. All MRSA notifications referring to the same individual are merged into one case record at the SMI, using a unique personal identification number. Thus, only new cases of MRSA are counted in the notification system. In this study, we included all cases notified in the years from 2000 to 2003. MRSA isolates from these cases were also sent to the SMI, where the bacteriological diagnosis was confirmed using PCR for the nuc and the mecA genes and epidemiological typing was performed using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE).
A prospective, active follow-up on the epidemiological investigation of each notified case was performed in addition to the routine passive surveillance. Once the epidemiological investigation of a case was completed, updated data were collected by MRSA contact persons in each of the 21 counties in Sweden, and entered into a national MRSA study database [8]. These contact persons were infection control and public health officers involved in the local public health work on MRSA, and as such had full access to all information on the MRSA cases.
Definitions for case data evaluation
We analysed a subset of the variables used in the notification forms. The variable Reason for testing defined the reason for taking the first bacteriological sample from which MRSA was isolated from a case, categorised as: a) clinical sample (sample taken for diagnostic purposes), b) contact tracing (sample taken from a contact of a diagnosed MRSA case in order to identify a transmission chain), or c) screening of risk groups (sample taken from a patient with an increased risk of having MRSA, e.g. with healthcare contacts abroad or clinical risk factors such as breakages of the skin barrier or urinary catheter). Clinical presentation was defined as a) disease or b) colonisation. Transmission setting was defined as a) healthcare-acquired (HA), b) community-acquired (CA) or c) unknown. To be considered as HA (including municipal care institutions such as nursing homes), a case would need to have been in contact with a healthcare setting where other MRSA cases with the same PFGE pattern had occurred. If MRSA cases had been in close contact with each other outside any healthcare setting (e.g. family members, child daycare, girl- or boyfriend, work colleagues, sport contacts) and the PFGE patterns did not contradict transmission, or if, in the absence of an epidemiological link, the PFGE pattern was known to occur in the community, the case was considered to be CA. When neither HA nor CA could be ruled out, the transmission setting was considered as unknown. For the purpose of this study, detailed information on Country of acquisition was broadly grouped as a) abroad (acquired outside Sweden), b) domestic (acquired in Sweden) or c) unknown. A notified case was considered as acquired abroad if the patient had been abroad within six months preceding diagnosis and had either an MRSA strain known to have occurred in that part of the world or a strain previously unknown in Sweden and a likely Swedish source could not be found. When neither domestic acquisition nor acquisition abroad could be ruled out, country of acquisition was entered as unknown. Work in healthcare institutions, municipal care facilities and day nurseries was considered a Risk occupation for acquisition of MRSA (answer categories a) yes or b) no).
Data analysis
We compared the information on the routine clinical notification form of each case, with the data in the study database. In case of several clinical notifications on the same case, the first one was used for the analysis. We calculated sensitivity (the percentage of information per variable in the validated study database that was supplied correctly on the clinical notification form) and positive predictive value (PPV, the percentage of information in the first notification that was in accordance with the information in the study database), with exact 95% confidence intervals. We also analysed the completeness of information on the first clinical notification form. The statistical analyses were performed in Stata version 8.2.
A total of 1,733 MRSA cases were reported during the study period. Table 1 provides detailed information on each of the variables in the first clinical notifications compared to the data in the study database. It shows the sensitivity, the completeness, and the predictive capacity of the information that public health officers received in the first clinical notification, i.e. of the information available for the initiation of public health actions.
Table 1. Data from the notifications of MRSA cases in Sweden, 2000-2003 (n=1,733)
Sensitivity of data in original notification
Of 140 cases with Risk occupations according to the study database, 83% were correctly identified as such in the clinical notification (Table 1). Sensitivity was also high for the variable Country of acquisition, with 76% of patients with acquisition abroad and 69% of patients with acquisition in Sweden correctly identified in the notification. The sensitivity was low for the variable Reason for testing, mainly due to missing information in the original notification forms (see below).
Missing information in original notifications
Missing information for a variable (Table 1) was either due to missing information for that question or due to the fact that the clinical notification form was missing altogether. The most complete variable category was Country of acquisition 'abroad': this information was lacking in only 11% of cases that had acquired MRSA abroad. Other categories for which the information given in the first notification to a large extent was present were: Transmission setting 'healthcare' (15% missing information), Clinical presentation 'disease' (16% missing information) and Risk occupation 'yes' (17% missing information). The most incomplete information was found for the variable Reason for testing.
Positive predictive value of the information in the original notification
The proportion of accurate information in the original notification (PPV) was highest for the variable Country of acquisition, with a PPV of 96% for domestic acquisition and of 90% for acquisition abroad (Table 1). Least predictive was the information on 'clinical sample' as Reason for testing with only 55% of the cases being verified. The Transmission setting 'community-acquired'also had a low PPV (65%).
Effect of case definition and method of case finding on estimated MRSA occurrence
In order to assess the impact of different case definitions on the distribution of reported MRSA cases, we analysed the variable Transmission setting within the variables Clinical presentation and Reason for testing according to the study database (Table 2). Overall, 32% of cases were CA and 52% HA. If only cases with MRSA-caused disease (and not carriage) had been reported, the proportion of CA and HA cases would have been 41% and 39%, respectively. A similar effect on the distribution of cases was seen when considering only cases diagnosed by cultures that had been taken on clinical indication: the proportion of HA cases decreased significantly (43%) and the proportion of CA cases increased (35%).
Table 2. MRSA cases notified in Sweden between 2000 and 2003, according to the validated case information, comparing the proportion of community- and healthcare-acquired cases within the variable categories of Clinical presentation and Reason for testing (n=1,733)
Of the 1,733 cases in the study, 45 were identified through the isolation of MRSA from blood cultures. Nine of these cases were CA (20%; 95% CI 9.6-35) and 25 were HA (56%; 95% CI 40-70). The proportion of CA cases among these was thus significantly lower than among all clinical MRSA cases (Table 2).
Discussion and conclusion
Far-reaching decisions on public health interventions and policy, as well as research studies, are based on routine surveillance data. Surveillance data are also used to compare the disease occurrence over time and between populations, e.g. when making international comparisons between countries. When using surveillance data for such purposes it is essential that the case definitions and measured variables are valid and comparable. The project with the national Swedish MRSA-database 2000-2003 provided us with a unique opportunity to analyse the validity of routine surveillance case-data in Sweden. There are accepted guidelines for the general evaluation of public health surveillance systems [14], but such guidelines do not cover the evaluation of the actual data entered into the system and their validity – presumably because high quality reference datasets rarely exist to compare routine surveillance data against. The validity of notification data has been investigated for other diagnoses such as tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus infections/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) [1,2], but we are not aware of any report on MRSA surveillance and data validity. The general sensitivity of the Swedish statutory surveillance system to detect patients diagnosed with a notifiable disease has recently been analysed and was found to be very high - well above 90% [15].
Pathogens like MRSA, which are able to colonise individuals as well as cause clinical disease, are particularly challenging for a surveillance system. Patients with clinical disease are more likely to seek healthcare and consequently more likely to be diagnosed and notified. The probability that a colonised individual is diagnosed and notified depends on the vigour with which case finding activities (contact tracing and screening of risk groups) are carried out. The incidence figures presented for different populations would therefore not be comparable if the proportions of colonised individuals identified through case finding activities differed, unless information on clinical presentation and/or reason for testing is specified. It has earlier been noted that differences in reported MRSA incidences can be a result of differences in case finding methods in neighbouring health-districts in England [16] as well as between hospital and community populations in an area of Manhattan, New York [17]. Studies of MRSA occurrence often include MRSA carriers [4,8,9,16-18]. To make a comparison valid, investigators need to characterise the cases for the closely interrelated variables Reason for testing and Clinical presentation (disease or colonisation), but this information is often not presented [8,11,18]. Simor et al. suspected an association between screening and colonisation among older MRSA patients in the Canadian Nosocomial Surveillance Program (CNISP) [19], but our study is to our own knowledge the first one to systematically address the effect of case finding on the incidence estimates of MRSA within a complete population on a national level.
The problem presented by an unknown proportion of carriers can be avoided by restricting the case definition to clinical infections only, or even to blood isolates only. In our study, less than two thirds of cases with MRSA colonisation and of cases with MRSA disease were shown to be correctly classified with regards to Clinical presentation. These findings indicate that the MRSA incidence would have been severely biased, if only MRSA disease had been notifiable. If only blood isolates were reported, such misclassification would be less likely. The rationale behind such an approach is that cases found through blood isolates act as a marker for the overall burden of MRSA [20]. Restricting the case definition in this way might however result in a biased estimate of the MRSA occurrence in the general population, as several studies found an association of MRSA bacteraemia with healthcare exposure [21,22]. This is substantiated by our study, in which the proportion of CA cases was significantly lower among those identified by blood culture compared to all cases with MRSA disease. A further advantage of considering all available MRSA cases is the increased statistical power and precision that comes with a larger number of study subjects. In smaller populations, such as single hospitals, this approach may be advantageous even in a high-endemic country like the United Kingdom [23]. Moreover, both MRSA carriers and those infected with MRSA are possible sources for further transmission in the population. From a point of view of MRSA control, a surveillance system should therefore include carriers. Our view is that ideally, all cases of MRSA, colonisation or disease, should be accounted for (provided there is a systematic case finding for colonised cases), along with data on the clinical presentation and/or the reason for testing, so that the analysis and interpretation of the figures can be adjusted accordingly. Public health-initiated case finding is carried out in situations where transmission is known to be high. Not monitoring cases from these settings, which generate a considerable number of new cases, is to neglect an important part of MRSA occurrence. How the surveillance of MRSA and other organisms that both colonise and cause disease is organised also depends on a number of other factors, such as the scope and level of the surveillance (e.g. hospital, district, regional or national), whether it is done in a high-endemic or low-endemic setting, and the available resources.
In conclusion, the present study clearly showed how differences in case definitions can influence the estimated number of MRSA cases categorised as healthcare-acquired or community-acquired, as well as the overall reported MRSA incidence. If carriers are included in the case definition, the overall occurrence and distribution of cases between the categories will also depend on the extent of the efforts to control MRSA through contact tracing and screening. We could identify considerable flaws in the quality of case data from routine notifications, e.g. misclassification of cases as colonisation or disease. Consequently, restricting the case definition to clinical cases only, would not be a reliable way to estimate the occurrence and distribution of MRSA. Surveillance systems and population-based epidemiologic studies thus need to specify the proportion of carriers and the reason for testing. This will also increase comparability of figures between countries or regions and between different points in time. Data validity cannot be taken for granted in a surveillance system, but needs to be ensured. For data that ultimately rely on information about transmission chains and results of epidemiological typing, the information should ideally be collected after the completion of the epidemiologic investigation of the cases.
The authors wish to thank Sharon Kühlmann-Berenzon for valuable statistical advice.
The Swedish study group on MRSA epidemiology:
A Andersson, Västmanland County; IA von Rosen, Jämtland County; B Ardung, Uppsala County; I Eliasson, Kalmar County; G Fridh, Värmland County; G Hedin, Gävleborg County; R Helisoja, Västernorrland County; B Isaksson, Östergötland County; K Karlman, Norrbotten County; L Kransberg, Blekinge County; A Lennell, Örebro County; A Lindblom, Dalarna County; G Lindh, Stockholm County; R Lundholm, Västerbotten County; I Nilsson, Södermanland County; L Nilsson, Kronoberg County; P Nilsson, Gotland County; P Nilsson, Halland County; UB Thollström, Stockholm County; PE Åbom, Jönköping County.
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1) Boil off and collect the alcohol from the wine, with a still.
2) Boil off and collect the water from the wine, with a still.
3) Replace the water you collected from the wine with tonic water that you are putting in the wine.
4) Re-add the alcohol
If I am correct I should have carbonated wine, aka sparkling wine. If anyone has any idea if this will or won't work and why, please answer.
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Drink the yeast anyway (but you don't want that)
Use a SodaStream machine to carbonate
Try the classic Champagne method (ask me for a link if you can't find one)
If you boil the wine you'll cook the flavour, Tonic has flavour you don't want and it amounts to making a cocktail over all.
I add the sugar-yeast solution to the bottle. Then I wait for it to ferment again. Then I freeze the bottle with it faceing down. After that I open the bottle and get the sediment (lees) out.
Am I right?
Super-fizzy and the yeast lifts off (not good), a bit fizzy in clean bottles and you can pour most of it off clear (if settled properly and chilled)
2 ozs. Bombay Sapphire gin
2 ozs. Schweppes Tonic Water
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Monday, September 28: Worst. Redskins Game. Ever.Posted by on September 28, 2009 – 9:25 am
Well, after a night of further reflection, yesterday was still pretty freakin' unpleasant. In fact, I think one of the only interesting things to come out of the game was a discussion in the comments here. No, not the ongoing attempt to assign blame for the loss — that one is just very grim to read — but the side discussion about which game represented the worst loss for the Washington Redskins.
In the heat of the moment yesterday, I had blandly suggested that the loss to Lions might be the worst Redskins loss in my lifetime. Other, cooler heads took grim pleasure in reminding me of any number of other terrible losses, and I thought it might make for a suitably depressing discussion and poll on this depressing Monday morning, while we wait for open locker room and Coach Zorn's 12:25 press conference.
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