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Pio Nono Avenue is a backbone of modern Macon. From Seven Bridges to Stanislaus, it stretches from a south side swamp to some of midtowns most treasured estates. Though its Italian name gets mangled by locals and visitors alike, the road is a 5-mile-long reflection of who we are and how we live.
Tracks in the grass caught my eye.
I could just make out a trail of small wheels. I figured someone ahead of me had slogged up the hill that starts at Dairy Queen with maybe a lawn mower or a baby stroller.
Out that way on Pio Nono Avenue, you notice grass.
Other than road shoulders, curbs and dirt, there isnt much else to walk on.
What grass there is, very little of it rises to the level of lawn. But it should be noted, the plushest on Pio Nono -- and perhaps in the city -- grows below Canterbury Road in front of competing funeral homes.
I spotted the tracks in front of a lube joint. It was a muggy Thursday afternoon in early August. The tracks paralleled the road across from Gold Cup Bowling. They reappeared on grassy roadside islands outside a butcher shop, a tax service and a gun warehouse.
Id been paying too much attention to the ground during what would be my final hike up Pio Nono. A day or two earlier Id met a man named John Greene who combs the city on his bicycle in search of discarded scratch-off lottery tickets. When I saw him, he had a baggie full of them dangling from his handlebars. He said a few were winners. Most were not. He collected them just the same.
The tossed game cards are not as plentiful as, say, cigarette butts. But they are a leading ingredient in the roadway debris, bummer reminders every block or two of fortunes unwon.
On around the curve at Newberg Avenue -- beyond the KFC turned loan mart and the Waffle House turned dry cleaners turned church -- I saw them.
A man and a woman, maybe 300 yards ahead.
They were pushing a stroller.
Turned into nothing
They trudged uphill past one of the well-manicured funeral homes and the Burger King next to it.
I jogged and caught up as they crested Pio Nonos summit at the Krispy Kreme. Still, I wasnt sure they were the ones whod left the tracks a mile back.
In the shade of an oak tree that guards the shell of a long-ago Wal-Mart, I introduced myself to Cassondra and Daniel Brotzman.
Theyd hoofed it two miles from the Safe Haven RV Park where they live. The park sits in a hardscrabble bottom off Glendale Avenue near the base of the on-ramp that slingshots Pio Nono traffic north onto Interstate 75. It isnt far from the Liberty Inn, a former Days Inn that in one form or another has stood sentry as south Macons expressway ambassador for the better part of four decades.
The Brotzmans, both 30, said it wasnt an easy hike navigating the minefield of curb cuts, uneven shoulders and oncoming cars while pushing their 4-year-old son, Gabriel. Theyd stopped at places along the way to cool off.
Luckily, Roses is still there, Cassondra said.
I assumed they were headed shopping.
Cassondra, who grew up in Warner Robins, gazed over at the vacant Wal-Mart.
It used to be Westgate mall and the Quails Nest over there, she said. And, like, a Shoe Carnival, and they used to have a theater over there, which turned into, like, a PetSmart, which turned into OfficeMax, which turned into nothing.
She said they were bound for a grocery store. They were tired of always going to the Bell Foods near where they live.
Theyd heard about this other place.
A Kroger.
The one way up at the top end of Pio Nono.
The supermarket lies along an unspoken boundary, a line of demarcation that slices Macon into distinct socioeconomic strata: one side of the tracks and the other.
The Brotzmans didnt know they were just two miles into an eight-plus-mile round trip until I told them.
Undaunted, Daniel said, This trip were kind of just wanting to check it out because we havent really been up there yet.
Were probably gonna buy some fruit, Cassondra said.
They stayed with me until we crossed Eisenhower Parkway, there at the McDonalds and the Walgreens.
Just up the block, I passed the Long John Silvers at the edge of the old Kmart shopping center and looked back. The Brotzmans were nowhere to be seen.
Cantata of complaints
Pio Nono Avenue crosses a bridge over some railroad tracks about a quarter-mile from where it ends.
In a tree- and shrub-lined stretch up to Vineville Avenue, which includes the midtown Kroger, are 16 residential properties. Their average value: $129,000.
There are 43 houses south of the tracks in the nearly two miles down to Eisenhower Parkway. Their average value: $38,000.
The cheaper houses lie in a span of Pio Nono that was, as part of a $5 million federally backed project, widened to four and five lanes in the mid-1980s.
A 1977 study had predicted the road might exceed capacity by the year 2000. Even so, by the time of the study, the recently completed I-75 had already siphoned off much of the north-south traffic that Pio Nono -- which is also U.S. 41 -- once carried.
A series of stories in the Macon Telegraph and News about the widening in February 1985 noted how no officials seemed to know whose idea it was to widen the road. It turned out the 1977 study was based on a traffic-flow computer model.
But bulldozers were already at work. Twenty-seven families, 79 people in all, surrendered their homes.
If the middle-class, mostly black neighborhood were a choir, the paper wrote, theyd be singing a cantata of complaints in unison.
The newspaper summarized the gripes of discontented locals thusly:
Critics ... charged that the Pio Nono project has floated down the systematic sluice, pushed along by a city government looking to spend state money, a state agency looking to spend federal money, and federal money designated for just this type of project. ... Easier set in motion than diverted.
Homeowners didnt care for the plans supposed commerce-boosting intent. They decried felled trees, uprooted yards and neighborhood-destabilizing, sinking property values.
I guess this is what they call progress, Ann Carswell, who rented a house north of Montpelier Avenue, said at the time.
I looked up Carswell and called her last month. Shed moved to another part of town soon after the widening. Now 65, Carswell recalled the Pio Nono upheaval.
She didnt sleep well then. Dirt was everywhere. Part of her yard was scraped away.
But it didnt displace any of the drug activity, she told me.
I would like to think some of it turned out for good, but some of it didnt. Youll hear certain people say, I will not go on Pio Nono Avenue. They think its all bad.
One of her former neighbors between Montpelier and Napier Avenue, just up from the CVS, stuck it out.
When the road crews roared through, Beatrice Watkins had asked them to let her know when her front yard would be bulldozed. She wanted to know so she could transplant her rose garden.
She grew American Beauties, Bing Crosbys, Bob Hopes.
The flowers were her darlings.
The road men promised to give her ample warning.
Then she arrived home one day and her garden was gone, plowed under.
Not long after that, in early 1985, Watkins told the Telegraph and News, They just havent treated us like human beings.
I spoke to her by phone in August.
Her caregiver said she suffered from dementia.
Watkins, 79, seemed to remember her roses, though.
The bulldozers, not so much.
Not as bad as you think
Assuming the Brotzmans -- Daniel, Cassondra and young Gabriel -- made it to Kroger that sun-baked August afternoon, they passed 19 title-pawn emporiums. They traversed Unionville and Cherokee Heights and ventured into a part of town north of Eisenhower where the walking gets easier.
Sidewalks appear and houses hug the street as Pio Nono does its best to shed the interstate ambience of its bottom half. Even if, two blocks up from Eisenhower, aromas from the Mrs. Winners still drift through the shade trees on Harris Street and make the old-timers hungry.
Up toward Anthony Road, the Churchs Chicken and the Blue Moon Package Store, barber John Hillman has been cutting hair at Hillmans Imperial since 1972, back when the side streets were dirt roads.
One thing weve got to do is get to know each other better, Hillman, 73, told me. You know, we talk about its a white thing or a black thing, but, you know, we all are people. ... When you have a certain race on this side, a certain race on that side, see, you dont know each other. ... You find out its not as bad as you think it is.
Beyond Anthony Road, opposite the Family Dollar, the mini-sweet-potato pies are out of the oven by noon at St. Cottons Cafeteria.
John Cotton, 74, formerly a lead vocalist for the gospel-belting Dynamic Cotton Brothers, opened his fried-chicken house in the early 80s. He started serving up breasts, wings, legs and thighs cooked in peanut oil, and business boomed.
I know good-tasting food, he said.
One day, on past the Splash & Dash Laundromat and tidy Vining Circle, I caught a glimpse of a woman in a wide-brimmed garden hat. She stood sweeping beneath the magnolia in her side yard, which overlooks Straight Street across Pio Nono from what used to be Hamilton Elementary School.
Her backyard garden featured as its centerpiece a cedar stump adorned with empty wine and beer bottles, the majority of them cobalt-blue Bud Light Platinums.
In my notepad I wrote, See lady ... neat yard.
I planned to visit her later. And I would. More than once.
This is a neighborhood
North of Mercer University Drive, Amazing Grace chimed in the late-day haze.
The chimes came from somewhere beneath the weather-vaned steeple at Bethel CME Church.
The church sits next to another one, the Jesus Mission of Love Holiness Church. When the sidewalk in front of the latter was poured, someone scrawled, God Bless Us All!
Aside from a couple of the storefront variety, the churches are among Pio Nonos few places of worship.
There was more music up the street at Montpelier.
Record shop owner Phyllis Habersham Malone sells vintage vinyl starting at $4.98. Everything from Elvis to the OJays and Kiss.
This is a neighborhood right here. This is not only a business district, the 64-year-old former schoolteacher told me. When people hear something bad happening over here, they just think the whole place is bad. And thats far from the truth. ... I think it is one of the best parts of town.
A few doors up Pio Nono toward Napier, in another residential stretch, Albert Lawson, 70, rode out the widening in the 1980s.
Hed moved to Pio Nono in 1970. He raised his kids, retired from Kmart and has fallen prey to a burglary or two.
We have pretty good neighbors, he told me when we spoke on the phone last month.
Lawsons back bothers him some, but it doesnt keep him from watching over a longtime neighbor, a woman who suffers from dementia.
Her name? Beatrice Watkins. The rose lover from down the street.
She lives with the Lawsons now.
To contact writer Joe Kovac Jr., call 744-4397.


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SHANGHAI, China (AP) _ Tiger Woods is expected to get a $2 million appearance fee and Rory McIlroy $1 million for their one-day exhibition match Monday in Zhengzhou, China.
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n recent days, players have been immersed in the elements—as stated in February's Heroes of the Elemental Chaos, "one doesn't have to look hard to understand the energy emanating from the Plane Below, filtering into the other planes through the magic of mortals and immortals alike. A fireball spell harnesses elemental flame, and the evocations of druids and shamans tap into a power even greater than the primal magic that controls it."
Since then, elemental powers continued their prominence in the most recent season of D&D Encounters: Elder Elemental Eye. Currently underway, players are working their way through the Sunset Shrine—and deeper in, to the hidden Temple of the Eye.
While the elements are very much on hand, this is D&D Alumni! And we'd be remiss not to look back at the game's earlier versions—and mythical origins—of the elemental planes and their denizens. This month's instalment comes to us courtesy of a writer who can certainly speak to the game's illustrious history: Grognardia's James Maliszewski.
Elementals have been a part of the monstrous menagerie of Dungeons & Dragons since the game's premier in 1974. As with many things in the original release, elementals are presented matter of factly and without any explanation on the assumption that gamers already knew what they were. As it turns out, this was probably a pretty good assumption, since—at the time of D&D's appearance—one of the biggest names in fantasy literature was Michael Moorcock. His stories of the doomed albino emperor of Melniboné, Elric, prominently featured elementals and their rulers, such as Kakatal the Fire Lord and Grome the Lord of Earth.
Of course, the idea of elementals is far older than D&D's immediate literary antecedents. They have their genesis in the works of an alchemist born in 16th century Switzerland named Phillip von Hohenheim—better known to history by his pen name, Paracelsus. Basing his ideas on the elements of classical Greek philosophy—earth, air, fire, and water—Paracelsus postulated beings composed of and exemplifying these elements. Earth elementals he called "gnomes," meaning "earth-dweller." Water elementals he called "undines," from the Latin word for "wave." Fire elementals he called "salamanders," because of a longstanding legend that these amphibians had an affinity for fire. Air elementals he called "sylphs," a word whose origin is unclear.
While Moorcock more or less adopted the nomenclature of Paracelsus without much modification, Dungeons & Dragons created its own take on elementals—a process of borrowing and reinventing ideas from mythology, legend, and folklore that's long been a hallmark of D&D… and that's continued as the game has grown and expanded. (A good example of this can be seen in the association of genies and genie-like creatures such as the djinn and efreet with specific elements—a development with only a thin basis in the real world tales from which they were drawn.) Thus over the years, D&D has used Paracelsus' names associated with each type of elemental to describe different creatures, though ones somehow connected to their element of origin. Gnomes became not earth elementals but an "earthy" demihuman race (with mining knowledge and the ability to communicate with burrowing mammals). Sylphs were not air elementals but fey creatures dwelling in aerial places (and who could summon actual air elementals 1/week). Salamanders and undines were more closely associated with the elements, but, even then, they were distinguished from "pure" elementals.
In early Dungeons & Dragons, such "pure" elementals (earth, air, fire, and water) were rated according the means used to summon them, with those conjured by spells far more powerful than those called by staffs, for example. The one commonality was that all elementals were summoned… but from where? Once again, the game expanded to answer this question, introducing the concept of elemental planes: otherworldly realms inimical (or at least very dangerous) to non-elemental life. For this reason, the elemental planes initially remained mysterious in D&D. But if there's one thing D&D players like it's a good mystery, and so speculation about the elemental planes, their nature, and geography became a regular feature of adventure modules, fanzines, and periodicals such as Dragon Magazine, each offering another piece to the puzzle.
A noteworthy early bit of speculation about the elemental planes appeared in issue #27 of Dragon (July 1979) by Jefferson Swycaffer, where he postulated the existence of not four elemental planes but sixteen! The additional twelve planes arose from interactions between the original four (plus the planes of good and evil). Thus, where the elemental plane of water met the planes of air and earth, one finds another elemental plane, a plane of "moisture." There were also planes of heat, cold, pleasure, pain, fertility, barrenness… a truly expansive definition of "elemental." Interestingly, Swycaffer suggested that demons were the elementals of evil and angels the elementals of goodness—ideas then without any basis in the game.
Gary Gygax, D&D's co-creator, wrote in a subsequent issue (#32, December 1979) that he liked many of Swycaffer's broad ideas but disliked their specific implementation. In particular, Gygax felt that ethical/moral concepts such as good and evil do not belong to any treatment of the elemental planes, which, as a whole, were neutral in their disposition. Consequently, he rejected the notion of demons and angels as "elementals" of evil and goodness, respectively, while endorsing the idea of "para-elemental" and "quasi-elemental" planes formed by the interaction of the four primary elemental planes. Indeed, he proposed an extensive re-imagining of all such planes three years later in issue #73, complete with a three-dimensional model readers could build to get a better handle on how it all hung together (which, to give credit where due, was something Swycaffer had done in his own article).
Additional articles by Gygax and others, notably Lenard Lakofka, filled in a few more details about the elemental planes so as to make them more suitable for play rather than leaving them utterly mysterious. It was this concern—suitability for play—that drove subsequent development of the elemental planes. Dungeons & Dragons is a game, after all, and its concepts—no matter how outlandish—should serve the purpose of play. The elemental planes as wholly inhospitable didn't serve this purpose very well, and so those original conceptions were modified or clarified in order to make these planes better suited to adventuring (just look at the 1st Edition Unearthed Arcana's druid, able to enter these planes at will).
Certainly the elemental planes remained challenging, as they still operated under different rules than standard D&D worlds; everything, from magic to class abilities to even orienting oneself, worked somewhat awry. To enter an elemental plane was, literally, to enter a new reality, and only the cleverest and most resourceful characters could hope to survive such a journey. Yet that new reality could nevertheless be quantified, and its rules—however bizarre—could be made understandable for the benefit of DMs wanting to introduce these places into their campaigns. Some of their initial mystery may have been lost, it's true, but was replaced by the opportunity to use the elemental planes in ways that weren't possible before.
Gary Gygax himself agreed with this perspective, noting that Dungeons & Dragons "is an ongoing game. It offers variety of play and development of characters in a linear direction. Unquestionably, the addition of other planes for adventuring purposes will certainly excite participants, offering them new areas to explore and new challenges."
About the Author
James Maliszewski started roleplaying in the late fall of 1979, when he opened up a copy of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set, which was edited by Dr. J. Eric Holmes and originally purchased for his father. More than thirty years later, he's still playing. He works as a freelance writer and blogs about old school gaming at http://grognardia.blogspot.com.


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Bosch, 51, moved to Georgia in 1979 and to Cherokee County in 1995. She and husband Bill have five children and one grandchild.
She also founded the Kevin Phillip Mahurin Motorcycle Awareness Foundation, which was recently awarded a grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety to produce activity books for young children to help them understand motorcycle awareness and safety.
Mahurin died in 2008 in a motorcycle crash and the foundation was established to educate both car drivers and motorcyclists about their responsibilities while on the road.
Bosch is also the managing director of the National Association of Journeymen Linemen, a national non-profit for linemen which her husband Bill help establish.
Bosch also at one point served as a poll manager, and on the executive board for the Cherokee County Republican Party.
Bosch, who resides in BridgeMill, reflected on her career with Patch:
1. How are you all feeling now in these last days of your tenure?
I am proud of the work that we've done for Cherokee County. There have certainly been some setbacks in the last few years, but overall I feel that we made very positive decisions for Cherokee County.
2. Are residents reaching out to you to wish you good luck?
Yes, I've had many residents contact me to thank me and wish me luck.
3. What are some of the proudest moments you have during your tenure?
My involvement in the Fire and EMS service for Cherokee County. I am very pleased with the work they have done. I championed getting them the resources and personnel they needed to build a Fire Department that is now regionally and state renowned. I am proud of the aquatic center and the expanded (Cherokee County Regional) Airport with new hangars and the state-of-the-art terminal. I am glad that the Board of Commissioners has been able to show prospective business and industry that we are serious and professional about what we do here and we are willing the think outside the box to get it done.
4. What do you think you could have done differently on any particular issue?
Followed my gut instincts on a few important decisions.
5. Were there any moments that would be considered "trying times?"
Getting back into the business of governing after the death of my son. The other would be dealing with the misinformation and propaganda that's been thrown out over the last eight months.
6. How do you feel about the future direction of the county now?
I feel positive about the future for Cherokee County – we have a lot of USP (Unique Selling Points) that will do the county well in the future.
7. Do you have any advice for the incoming commissioners?
I think the best advice I could give is to quote a true leader, Margaret Thatcher: "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
8. What are your plans for the near future?
My future plans are to enjoy my family and to take breath and decide what direction is best for the future.
9. Is there any possibility of you getting back into politics?
I am leaving that door open.
10. What do you want to tell residents who have elected and supported you over the last eight years?
Thank you for your support, I have worked as hard as anyone could to represent you and to make decisions based on what is best for Cherokee County now and for posterity. I have made some very dear friendships that will last a lifetime. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have been your commissioner.


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Stone 8th Anniversary Ale - Stone Brewing Co.
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3.98/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Dark, dark, almost muddy, reddish-brown body. Thin white head falls off very quick.
Nose is roasty caramel malt with a hop twang on the finish.
Flavor is rich caramel malt. Smooth and sweet. Not a lot of hops on the finish, kind of surprising for Stone. Almost a chocolate sweetness to this. Very different for a mild, not what I expected at all.
Mouthfeel is round and smooth. Stout-like body and creaminess.
Drinkability seems pretty good. Hard to say, since I only have 1 bottle, and will probably never have another.
Good stuff from Stone.
Serving type: bottle
10-04-2006 22:26:33 | More by ghostwalker
3.83/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pour on tap this past weekend at Stuffed Sandwich for their Stone Days celebration. Sam said it was a wheat beer, looks like it's classified as a Brown Ale here.
Pours a murky brown. More like a barley wine than a traditional brown ale. Light head that dissipates quickly. Smells of chocolate malt, caramel and alcohol. Smells stronger than 7.8%. Taste like a cross between a barley wine and a wheat wine. Very malt forward without the normal hop stickiness in Stone beers. I'm curious how hoppy it was fresh. All and all a good beer that I could try again. My local liquor store has tons of these still at about $4/ea and stuffed is selling them for $20 in the bottle. Might try a bottle and see how it is versus the keg storage.
Serving type: on-tap
10-02-2006 22:00:49 | More by Callenak
4.33/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
There's a small caramel head on top of a cloudy dark cherry body.
The nose is warm and fruity, with cherries amongst a small amount of raspberries.
Right at first sip, along with some fruit, I get chocolate and coffee that I didn't detect in the nose at all. As the beer warms, the chocolate flavor becomes more prominent and some more malt character enters the nose.
It's full in the mouth, warm, and drinkable to boot. I really enjoyed drinking this beer, and I wish I had bought more when it was still Stone's 8th anniversary.
Serving type: bottle
09-26-2006 17:59:34 | More by delicious
3.75/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Decided to crack open one of my 8th Ann. Ales. This one might have peaked...
Looks really good, deep amber color, with a slight white head.
Also smells quite nice, similar to a barleywine, with fruity baked bread aromas.
Flavor seems a bit off. Has a nice bitter and sweet malty front, but fades on the finish. Might be do to age? Don't know... Mouthfeel is also lacking a bit.
It is certainly still drinkable, but I had one about 6 months ago and it was better.
Serving type: bottle
09-14-2006 02:57:08 | More by flexabull
4.5/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Consumed on the evening of 9/7/06. A two year old brown ale? Stone's tasting notes from March were more than promising.
The pour is a blend of dark brown and amber, but its fiery red hue comes out when I hold it up to the light. Oooh, welcome to 4.5 country. The second pour brought way more head.
The nose has a lot more milk chocolate than I remember this having two years ago. That's always a great characteristic. There are caramel malts, figs, nuts and I'm getting currant every four sniffs.
This is one chocolaty brown ale. Sweet malts bring chocolate, camel, dark fruit, and nuts. This was fairly hoppy when it was fresh, but today, the hops stay in the background in a much more supportive role.
I don't have another bottle, but if I did, I would wait to see how this beer continues to develop.
Serving type: bottle
09-08-2006 06:37:30 | More by goschool
4.4/5 rDev +9.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
8th Anniversary Ale, August 2004 - Sampled at 2 Years Old.
Served up in a 5 year chronological Vertical line-up of the 6th, 7th and 9th past Anniversary Stone brews throughout the next few days, before I sample the latest 10th Anniversary Stone offering.
Appearance: Massive tan head, thick, auspicious looks, conspicuous lacing and the highly detailed collapsed, creamy and rocky contours, are just as intriguing as the Moons surface. Body is hazed with a dark treacle like stance; this renders all the qualities of the Bastard child of a drunken one night stand between a Newcastle Brown Ale and a Bloody Mary .. solid stuff, looks much better than the last bottle I had 6 months ago. Lasting Kopf runs rings down the glass, conditioning is super fine.
Nose: Past experience has been of a reticent nose, not so after 2 years!!! It positively leaps out of the glass; crushed figs, soft prunes, milk chocolate and a lovely silky hop character that wraps itself around the darker fruits. The aromas are stronger and the score picks up a few clicks here, just enough to pull a 4.0 with ease, but miss out on a 4.5 by the thickness of a mosquitos pubic hair.
Taste: Hmmmm, Willy Wonka would be proud. The chocolately nature is progressing nicely and has rounded out with some age. It melds with prunes, figs and a smidgen of Lyles Black Treacle to offer a smooth silky effort. Hints of molasses and soaked wood punctuate the lingering tail long after the Cadburys milk chocolate after-taste fades. Dark Jamaican Rum and Cappuccino even comes to mind after a half Bomber. Strikingly good and I am surprised how much this has picked up in just 6 months since I last tried it. The complexity is developing; the previously easy to recognize bitterness is now hard to separate from the chocolate tones, it bonds to form an aphrodisiac chocolate coated hoppyness which hypnotizes with a sexual nature.
Mouthfeel: One thing that the Stone Anniversary brews exhibit, is a strong long term conditioning. Not one of the previous Stones, even the 6th Smoked Porter, has suffered. The 8th is no different. Finely dissolved conditioning, silky, talcum powder soft with a slickness that would rival Du Ponts Teflon®. Oh so easy, all too effortless. The 8% is long gone, but I am sure it is still hiding, successfully camouflaged in and amongst the chocolate hops. Very good.
Drinkability: The dark fruits, addictive chocolate, smooth belly and attractive back end all make for a brew that disappears waaaay too quickly. Intensely flavorful, with an excellent poise from the carbonation, and a rich rewarding dark complexity in the finish - this is perfect right now, so hard to put down, yet so easy to put down. Precarious!
Overall: Just like the start of the English Premiership League, this is a very welcome August return which, with 8 bottles left, will no doubt be a Perennial favorite for some time to come I feel - I hope!! Whereas the airy-fairy fanciful unbalanced 9th bombed in my eyes and was a Bridge Too Far; I cant help but think that this (the 8th) was a **very** successful detour for Stone. The 8th works extremely well for me. This is definitely Stones best style detour in the Anniversary line-up for my money. I am digging the journey of the 8th and I am also thinking that this could get better yet.
Serving type: bottle
08-25-2006 05:02:20 | More by TheLongBeachBum
3.9/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4
Didnt quite know what to expect - a brown ale sitting for this long. alcohol content was high so i figured it would be fine but i didnt know if it would go anywhere positive. still not sure if it got better, but it was pretty damn good.
Super thick and creamy mouthfeel, almost like a Rochefort or something like that. Flavor is fairly subtle, nothing too special, but very likeable.
I guess that sums it up - feels great in your mouth, but isnt truly unique in any way.
Serving type: bottle
07-31-2006 04:10:00 | More by Lnedrive14
4.28/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A: Pours a murky brown with reddish hues. A small, thick head subsides to a frothy ring.
S: Nutty malt aroma. Subtle, but very nice.
T: Malty up front, with not a whole lot going on. Just when I was about to get disapointed a flavor of roasted nuts and cappachino filled the mouth. Let's hear it for delayed gratification.
M: Thick and heavy with moderate carbonation. Very nice.
D: It's too bad that this is limited production, because I love it. Smooth and full-flavored, this is quite drinkable, and I have yet to have anything quite like it.
P.S. Floccinauccinihilipilification. Hell yeah!
Serving type: bottle
07-28-2006 00:02:51 | More by klewis
4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This was a delicious beer, altho a bit tame for an anniversary edition. A very proper example of a brown ale, and kicked up a notch as only Stone can do. I definitely taste some chocolate; a very good malt base was used for this brew. There is a nice hop finish to each sip as well, which I would expect from Stone.
Overall, an enjoyable beer, and a very good strong brown ale! Was happy to find this in the cooler at Whole Foods- the only one on the shelf actually! I imagine it must have been sitting in the back for a long time...
Serving type: bottle
07-27-2006 03:51:31 | More by audiojon
New York
3.73/5 rDev -7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a dark brown hue with no head, no lacing. Smells quite alcoholic with a lot of red wine going on, and some slight coffee scents. Some fruity raisiny things come through. Tastes quite like a porter or a stout- there's so much chocolate up front, then a wave of coffee, and some bittersweet espresso. Mouthfeel is okay but a bit on the thin side for me. Overall fairly drinkable, but a bit too sweet after a while. Still, it's a tasty brew, and the alcohol is fairly well balanced.
Serving type: bottle
07-18-2006 03:21:00 | More by scooter231
4.33/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
22oz bottle courtesy of Sephiroth. Poured into a Cooperstown 10th Anniversary pint glass.
This is a very good brown ale. It is superbly drinkable. It pours a orange-hinted brown with a minimal head, although the second pour provides more of a head. There is nice lacing that sticks to the glass. The taste is dominated by caramel/toffee maltiness. There is a hop bite that compliments the maltiness, but this is definitely a malt-monster, unlike other Stone beers. There is nothing harsh about this beer, and I dig the clean finish.
Serving type: bottle
05-20-2006 01:42:18 | More by bignick
New Jersey
4.13/5 rDev +3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
found for $4.79 a few weeks ago (2 bottles.. so what the hell..I might as well try one and see if I think the other is worth saving/savoring)
lively! brown.. like dark caramel, 2 full fingers of head crackle and it stays amply fed with very active carbonation racing up inside the glass. damn, this is REALLY active in the glass wehn you hold it up to the light. lacing is superb and sticky like the floor of a movie theater. damn this is inviting... great looking! later on down the glass this leaves gobs of lace.. almost like tree rings.. I can tell the age of the beer or something now...
fresh chocolate malts, deep scarred and almost scalded caramel, coffee aromas as well.. the nose is deep and strong showing just a hint of the alcohol, this has that smell of when you just open a chocolate bar except with a dash of barley... nice.
taste etc...
oddly enough this tastes like a more tame (alcohol wise) version Old Stock Ale (03 vintage tasted recently).. the old stock is of course boozier and has more barley kick.. but damn this reminds me of it... realyl nice mouthfeel, it is creamy and smooth.. and yet for a brown it has a subtle hop bite before the chocolate notes round out the experience. The alcohol does make it slightly hot in the mouth but not to a detriment for me personally. the flavor is dominated by the malts, chocolate mostly, but not overly so which would generally offend my pallete (personal preference). This is nice and full in the mouth but drinks just light enough.. kudos!
stone didn't let me down on this one.. thanks to my BA bud yelterdow for recommending that I grab this when I saw it.. especially for the price.. damn! what can I say.. if you see it, grab it.. I think I know a few stores that may have it buried on the shelves.. time for some beer hunting, this one is worth seeking.
Serving type: bottle
05-12-2006 03:03:48 | More by Ego
3.88/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours a frothy tan head over a hazy mahogany body. Head recedes with little to no lace. Rich malty sweetness dominates the aroma. More of the same in the flavor with waves of caramel and rich malt up front with light notes of chocolate. A earthy and even mildly spicy hop character joins in making this a well rounded brew, albeit on the sweet side. Medium to full body. Moderate carbonation. Smooth upfront with a very mild lingering hop spiciness contributing some dryness.
A rather robust brown ale bordering on old ale status. Excellent malt complexity and a balanced sweetness, at least in my opinion. The noticeable hop character provides nice counter notes while giving the malt center stage. A tasty malty delight, that is drinking well at almost two years old.
Serving type: bottle
05-03-2006 23:44:25 | More by Shovelbum
3.8/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 22 oz. bomber into a tulip. Poured the color of Hershey's Milk chocolate with nice garnet highlights. The nose was kind of subtle and vinous. Taste was big oak and vanilla and bready malts. Sweet but short of cloying. Hops are still lingering in this bad boy after 2 years...nice and complex with some good warming feeling from the alcohol. Tastes like an Imperial Brown Ale to me. Good solid offering from stone and a nice sipper but not something I could drink all night.
Serving type: bottle
04-17-2006 03:43:17 | More by Bleedingshrimp
3.93/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Many thanks to Px2GrafX for this little guy.
Good ol 22oz stone bomber. The back of this one is probably my favorite anniversary rant. . .its got my favorite word on it: Floccinauccinihilipilification. Gotta love it.
Pouring in to my trust Stone pint glass. Pours ridiculously dark. A very, very, very dark amber. . closer to mahogany. Almost no head. Hard to see through the murkiness, but there is some bubble action going on. Head is already gone.
Nose is very close to my lovely arrogant, bastardly little friend. Definite grape fruit action, some prunes. . .and hint of cherry? Very musty, perhaps a coffee overtone.
Tastes like a black and tan made with arrogant bastard and stone smoked porter (as if you could call that a black and tan). Very roasty flavor, very noticeable coffee flavor as well. Tastes a bit flat (not bad flat, but stout flat), with a carbonation/alcohol zing at the back. Starts off pruney like the bastard, but its predominately stout flavored from there on out. Pretty damn tasty, just not eye-opening like most of Stones offerings.
Serving type: bottle
04-17-2006 03:12:28 | More by WaffleSauce
New Mexico
4.3/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Somewhat hazy ruddy brown with a few floating particulates (noticed a heck of a lot of sediment in the bottom of this 20 month old bottle) and a clingy clumpy tan foam cap. Sweet caramel and candied fruit aromas mixed with a hint of hazelnut liquer immediately make me think this is some kind of old ale. If this were intended as an old ale (I know it's not), the taste would reveal it as a mere pretender. No matter, because what is offered, even at such a late date, is wonderful: soft, smooth nutty caramel malts with a sweet cherry undercurrent. Earthy bitterness from some expertly blended hops emerges at the finish. Begins airy and fluffy but overall a satin smooth mouthfeel; medium body. I can certainly detect the "spirit" of a mild ale here, however this is most definitely more of an amped up brown. Never bothered to pick up any of Stone's Anniversary Ales before. Damn! Now I know!
Serving type: bottle
04-08-2006 04:06:51 | More by orfeu
New York
4.5/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I don't want to overanalyze this beer. A kick-ass brown ale (with all due respect to Albany Pump Station's "Kick-ass brown"), this thing just drinks like a big old brown sugar bomb. It has such great molasses notes, and a little bit of nuttiness, it reminds me a bit of a New Orleans-style praline. However, just the right amount of aggressive hoppiness balances things out, and the finish, while smooth, rich, and full-flavored, does dry out enough to invite sip after luscious sip.
Man, I love this beer. It's a good thing that my local beer store still has several of these in stock... and drinking better than ever. Get your hands on some before it's all gone.
Serving type: bottle
04-04-2006 01:21:31 | More by bultrey
3.6/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Murky brown color with a low ringed beige head and subtle carbonation. Malty milk chocolate aroma and flavor dominate; nice balance between malt and hops with a fairly noticeable alcohol effect on the finish. Medium-full bodied but kinda flat.
Way strong for a Mild Ale and not quite so special for an Anniversary Ale -- otherwise it's OK for what it is.
Per bottle: "Originally brewed as Lee's Mild in Mid '98"
Per SBC website: IBUs: 55. Starting Gravity 18.5 P. Oak used during brew process.
Bottle Release Date: 08/16/04
Released: "August 2004"
Tasted: 02/09/06
($6.49 / 22 oz. lithographed bottle)
Serving type: bottle
03-16-2006 21:10:54 | More by RBorsato
4.33/5 rDev +8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
After cellaring this beer for way too long, I finally found that perfect opportunity to enjoy. The first few sips led me to beleive that this is an American Strong Ale. I was surprised to find that it was intended to be a Brown Ale. If so, it's the biggest Brown Ale that I've ever had. Sure it has the chocolate, toffee, barley, toasty flavors. But it's also got a heafty helping of hops to balance, amber flavors for complexity, and loaded with brown sugar, molassas, cherries, berries, and nuts. The hops add more than just balance. A solid hop flavor adds spiciness and earthiness, while contributing to a lightly floral aroma. More amber in color than expected from a Brown. Full and rich body, yet remarkably smooth and drinkable. Finishes moderately sweet, and well balanced. I'm glad that I waited to savour this beer, but now I have a problem--finding more of them to drink!
Serving type: bottle
03-08-2006 03:22:21 | More by BEERchitect
4.53/5 rDev +13%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
I really enjoyed pouring this beer. The color of the stream of beer flowing into my glass was fantastic. Dark amber with traces of gold. Picks up a lot more red and burgundy in my tulip. The small copper bubbled head was disappointingly momentary.
Smells delightfully of heavy malts with caramel, molasses and a hint of coffee. Theres also a citrus wafting around in the background adding a lot of life to this one. Smells a lot like a barley wine.
Tastes more like a brown ale. Theres a delicate charred wood and burnt oat malt flavor here paired with a pear sweetness. Theres also a light bitter sourness that I can feel more than I can taste that sends electric tingles along the edges of my tongue. This fades into a roasted coffee that drifts up into my nose in the finish. My only concern is that a little bit of oxidized metal slips into the finish as well. Over all, there are some very busy, meandering dynamics here.
The mouth feel is light, dense and clean with a very small carbonation that adds a unique element to the feel.
Serving type: bottle
03-03-2006 21:57:46 | More by DarkerTheBetter
4.08/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
I picked this bottle up yesterday (yes in 2006) at a store and couldnt believe they still had it. Anyways on to the review. It pours a very dark and murky amber color not a whole lot of head even when poured aggressively it does leave a nice lacing though. It smells of malt, figs, and a bit of fruit, overall its a very faint smell. The taste is very nice, a chocolaty malt and nut flavor with a hint of the hop flavor that Stone are known for. I like it. The feel is somewhat odd as it doesnt seem to have too much carbonation left (this could be do to being in the fridge for so long) but it is still very drinkable, a very nice treat from Stone although clearly not their best.
Serving type: bottle
03-03-2006 07:09:39 | More by ChillMike
4.5/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Appearance - a very dark amber pour, but when held to light becomes iced tea color. A good-sized head of a finger or more recedes forthwith, leaving bits and pieces of lace on the glass.
Aroma - an initial nose of Belgian-style sweetness. As the head falls down into the glass, aromas of cherry and chocolate emerge. A waft of booze is picked up now and then. Smells like a dessert beer. Fortunately for me, I ate *all* my supper so I am entitled... :-)
Taste - very malty...and sweet...and bitter...now *that's* a workout for the tastebuds! The sweetness is a base sugary feeling, not consistently connected to any particular food. At times it lends itself to some chocolate notes that occasionally peek through the thick veil of alcohol. For a 7.8 abv brew it comes across like a 10+. The sweet/bitter are both intense, I like the balance. The swallow brings out a full force moment of booziness and then the aftertaste hits bitter at the back of my tongue and throat. About 20 to 30 seconds after, there is a mild coffee flavor sneaking in that doesn't show up anywhere else in the flavor profile. Yummy stuff.
Mouthfeel - very average in all aspects;doesn't get in the way, just lets the flavor do its thing.
Drinkability - a most tasty bomber that I would surely have again.
Serving type: bottle
03-01-2006 04:09:41 | More by brewdlyhooked13
4.1/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Ruby-brow body with tan head. Retention is so-so, but he beer itself looks great. Rich fruity/roasty smell with a note of alcohol as it warms up. Almost a little spicey too. Nice taste, hard to distingish though. Sweet dark malts with a toffee, caramel and a slight roasted note. Not chewy and not too thin. Feels ust riht going down but 22 oz. is enough with dinner. Heck of a brown ale, give it a try.
Serving type: bottle
02-20-2006 00:57:43 | More by tempest
4.58/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 3 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
Had on tap after touring Stone's new brewery in Escondido. Great tour by the way. Definitely make time for it. Nice folks, and a lot of information.
It's too bad that this was a Stone special release because I would like this all of the time. The smell was very roasty, more so than many coffee stouts. Hell more than most coffee!
The taste was complex; started out like a strong nut brown but without the nuts, if you can imagine, with more roastiness in the aftertaste. No alcohol was apparent in the flavor but at close to 8% I felt it pretty quick since I was on an empty stomach.
Excellent all around brew that I hope they will keep making. Maybe they can feature this one when they get the restaurant up and running (supposedly by June).
I would have picked up a growler, but predictably the place was hopping (pardon the pun), and the lines were long.
Serving type: on-tap
02-18-2006 14:47:54 | More by spazaru
New Jersey
4.08/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Found a bottle in late 2005 that I've been saving up... rare as hell in NJ, I had to cross the border (to NY) to buy this... thanks, Cable Beverage!
Served in an Ommegang chalice at cellar temperature.
Appearance- Pours a barleywine/old ale fiery reddish brown, with a modest inch-thick head that leaves a subtle trace. Hugely rich in color, this looks nothing like the traditional American Brown Ale I know.
Smell- You really could have (and would have) fooled me... this beer smells like some of the greatest old ales in the ol'factory brain cells. Leather, dark fruit, alcohol, old shoes, grandfather clock... damn friggin' lovely. Greg & Co. recommends you "drink now" rather than age their beers, but this baby... at 18 months... is wonderfully rewarding. Creamy, vanilla-like aromas now waft through my nose. American Brown? WTF?
Taste- All of the above, with a badass alcohol kick... 7.8% feels like 11.4%... I remember how North Coast Old Stock '03 left me at midnight sometime in the summer of last year. This smells and tastes great, there's no way you could compare this beer to other ABAs because the complexity and sheer punch will devastate. I feel like Stone is playing a cruel joke, and I am the lucky bastard. The rich, sweet, malty, dark fruit attributes combined with the elevated ABV and 85 year-old baseball glove aroma have etched a fond place in my beer tasting psyche.
Mouthfeel/Drinkability- Real nice, creamy and mild. Carbonation takes the obligatory back seat to enhancement of flavors, we wouldn't want to mess with the party going on here. I score points for this brew being WAY more than I would have imagined an American Brown Ale to be... it could be just the whole aging thing...
All in all, a fun and extremely surprising tasting.
Serving type: bottle
02-16-2006 05:08:43 | More by yelterdow
Stone 8th Anniversary Ale from Stone Brewing Co.
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I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century.
Since he was a toddler, six-year-old Nicholas Volker's intestine had been dangerously inflamed, necessitating a hundred surgeries including the removal of his colon. No one knew the cause, but it seemed certain that the boy was dying. In a desperate attempt to figure out what was wrong, doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin did something desperate and unproven: they sequenced his DNA.
The doctors found a mutation that nobody expected, but that seemed to explain his condition and also dictated a treatment: a bone marrow transplant of cells taken from umbilical cord blood. It's early to say for sure, but the treatment seems to have worked. Nicholas is now six, and is doing well, although he still takes drugs to prevent transplant rejection and will need more reconstructive surgery. When I spoke on the phone with his mother, Amylynne Santiago Volker, last night, Nic was running around with a plastic sword.
This is the first clear example of what many doctors have been predicting for several years: that for patients with rare, undiagnosable diseases, DNA sequencing will become the court of last resort. An earlier paper, which I wrote about last year, changed the diagnosis for one infant, but didn't have immediate impact on the baby's treatment. It's possible that DNA sequencing saved Nic Volker's life. The case is published in Genetics and Medicine, a research journal, and was the subject of a heart-rending and informative three-part series by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that deserves to win an award. Nic and his parents were also recently on the Today Show.
"It was fabulous on one hand because we finally had a diagnosis that would give us the treatment of the bone marrow transplant," says Santiago Volker. "On the other hand it was scary." And then she found out Nic had received the gene from her. She had planned to have more children, no longer does. Trying to describe that feeling, she gropes for words. "I guess I don't have a word today. I guess I had a lot of guilt that I had a mutation that I passed on to my son."
This case could be hugely important, because it puts what was until now a research tool to use helping sick people directly into the middle of a medical success story. "When that sort of thing gets out, every parent whose kid is wasting away goes to the hospital and says 'if you can't do that, I'm going somewhere that can,'" says George Church, the Harvard University DNA sequencing pioneer. Howard Jacob, the geneticist at the Medical College of Wisconsin who sequenced Nicholas, says his hospital has started a program by which two physicians can nominate patients to be sequenced. A review committee selects which patients are actually sequenced. So far, Jacob says, 30 cases have been put forward and six of them have been selected for sequencing.
David Margolis, the doctor who performed Nic's transplant, says he simply viewed the data as a lab test – albeit a very cool one – and viewed his role as pushing the "smart doctors" – the geneticists – for a clear reason to expose the child to a risky procedure.
"My role in this was pushing his doctors to make a diagnosis," says Margolis. "Because I wouldn't transplant him based on maternal instinct, gut feeling, or there's nothing else to do so let's do it. Unless we had a reasonable chance of curing him with the transplant I didn't think it was worth the risk."
That is a cool story. It brings up 2 interesting things for me:
1) There are going to be people who feel like the mom "I had a lot of guilt that I had a mutation that I passed on" and nobody's really talking about that as a consequence of sequencing and personal genomics.
On the other hand–that same guilt and desire to shift causation is causing a separate consequence….
2) Some people refuse to believe that mutations are the problem for disease. I've seen this in the autism field, and more recently in the environmental + alternative medicine arena–we've nicknamed them DNA deniers.
I think the DNA deniers are too wedded to an idea they have invested in (vaccines/autism) or want to sell their political philosophy and/or detox products.
But there's going to be some backlash from sequencing that we are just starting to see pop up. It's actually be kind of fascinating to watch it develop.
This is a very nice story but the link between a full exome genome and a bone marrow transplant really doesn't resonate with me. How did one mutation actually directed towards that decision, that aspect is not very clear anywhere in the process. The sequenced the kid, cool, but did it really change the course of the transplant, create a new therapy for a common disease ? Not really, seems to me this is similar to doing a BMT on an HIV patient with a resistant marrow (chances of winning the lottery are better almost) and calling that a cure for nations of the world (it isn't). Sure they found a mutation, I have some myself but how is that linked to susceptibility or treatment here ?
So since this is Forbes, I'm actually trying to see the business model in this story, if there is one, other than buying more bone marrow transplants instead of sequencing equipment… I'm also wondering why a new mutation discovery, a new disease discovery and a new treatment discover only makes it to Genetics and Medecine (with all do respect).
@memsormerville if you believe that mutations are the only cause of disease, then you are in for a big surprise and a very long wait.
I'm still waiting on that 1000 genome project and the the great Life Tech Ignite story. Nobody, especially this molecular biologist want to think there isn't a wealth of information in mutations but when companies boost failed projects with incredible media and press release power, you might want to ask yourself if the mutation is as important as the stock price.
January 28th 2010, less than one year ago and I quote "This is truly a watershed moment for the genomic revolution that we have all been working toward"
No it's not, that deal never happened!
I didn't say the *only* cause of disease. You did.
There are people out there who are denying a DNA basis for diseases for which we know there are molecular effects. They will also sell you detoxification teas if you are into that sort of thing.
[...] First child saved by DNA sequencing – I use something like this in one of my short stories [...]
[...] an insurance company even paid to do it. I think that was a bigger deal than any of those others: The First Child Saved By DNA Sequencing, and Sequencing A Child's DNA — And Convincing An Insurance Company To Pay. But we are just [...]
[...] Even in consumer electronics, costs don't always go to zero. Buying a decent computer (not the chintzy netbook I use for everything) costs as much now as it did ten years ago – the power behind the device you get has simply increased. But medicine is not like consumer electronics. That's why we often pay astronomical prices for drugs that have real benefits –$93,000 per patient for Dendreon's prostate cancer drug Provenge, or $200,000 per patient per year for one of Genzyme's rare disease drugs. Sequencing isn't going to mirror the drug business. It might be more like the PET scan and MRI business, with select hospitals buying huge, expensive machines. Or it might be that people don't get their whole genomes scanned except when they have a hard to diagnose disease – patients with cancer might have a few hundred or a thousand of their tumor genes sequenced in order to pick the right drugs, for instance. All of this comes with the hurdles that neither doctors nor regulators really understand sequencing yet, and that's bound to come with all sorts of hiccups. On the other hand, the first cases of using sequencing in medicine are arriving now. [...]
[...] piece about this was at Forbes: The First Child Saved By DNA Sequencing [...]
[...] piece about this was at Forbes: The First Child Saved By DNA Sequencing [...]
[...] to believe that their DNA may have contributed to their child's issues–because that is a burden of guilt to carry. But the fact that we don't have all the answers yet–that doesn't permit you to [...]


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Mention the Washington Redskins and names like Joe Theismann, Art Monk and Sonny Jurgensen come to mind. They were great players on great teams. Robert Griffin III might be added to the list someday, as well.
But another subject has some grumbling that political correctness has reached its zenith in Washington. That is the team's nickname – the Redskins – which has drawn claims that it carries racial overtones and draws out the NFL franchise's history of discrimination.
I'd never given much thought to the the team's label until Goshen, a community in northern Indiana, started discussing whether "Redskins" was an appropriate mascot for the local high school and its athletes. Many see it as a racially derogatory expression that is offensive to Native Americans.
Really, team nicknames, mascots and labels seem a little silly. I can't give you much information about why they're called the Dodgers or what a Catamount is. I can't describe a Hoosier. I do know that such terms have rallied communities and, in some cases, become loved and valued identities.
The controversy in Washington has reached such a pitch that team owner Daniel Snyder discounted any possibility about renaming the team when talking to USA Today: "We'll never change the name. It's that simple. NEVER – you can use caps."
Critics point to the case of the Penobscot Indian Nation whose tribesmen in the mid-18th century were tracked and killed for money. Their scalps – "redskins" – brought a nice bounty, explained Eni Faleomavaega, the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from American Samoa, in a column for Politico.
The current chief of the Penobscot Nation, Kirk Francis, described this hunting and killing of men, women and children as a "most despicable and disgraceful act of genocide."


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Major Dating Service Faces Legal Action for Allegedly Sharing HIV and STD Statuses of Customers
A major dating conglomerate allegedly shared HIV and STD statuses of customers with thousands of other sites.
A class action suit alleges that an online dating conglomerate broke the law and its promises of confidentiality to customers by sharing their HIV and STD statuses on spinoff sites.
One of the largest dating conglomerates in the world is in hot water for allegedly posting the HIV and STD statuses of its customers on its affiliate dating sites without their knowledge.
A class action suit against Successful Match alleges that the conglomerate broke the law and its promises of confidentiality to customers on PositiveSingles.com by sharing their HIV and STD statuses on "thousands" of spinoff sites, including HIVGayMen.com, STDHookup.com and Blackpoz.com.
[READ: Gay Community Won Battles on Marriage, But May Be Losing War on HIV/AIDS]
The two female plaintiffs say when they joined Positive Singles, the site promised them "fully anonymous profiles" in a service that would connect them with other singles with the same status.
"What it does not do, however, is disclose that there are upwards of a thousand other websites that link to PositiveSingles.com" – and all use the same database of profiles, the women say in the suit. Today, Positive Singles has a disclaimer about its network of affiliated sites. It is unclear when that disclaimer was posted.
[ALSO: Scientists Crack HIV Coating, Leading to Possible AIDS Cure]
The women are seeking an injunction against Successful Match's current business plan as well as damages.
Meanwhile Christianmingle.com, a dating website for Christian singles, is also embroiled in a class action suit, for not offering its dating services to same-sex couples. Courthouse News Service reports that Christian Mingle is being sued for a violation of human rights law in California, where same-sex marriage is legal.
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Valpo Volleyball Downs Penn at Georgetown Classic
Friday, September 13, 2002Valparaiso used 22 kills and 22 digs from Michelle Robinson (Bloomington, Ill./Normal H.S.) on its way to a 3-1 victory over Penn at the Georgetown Classic.
The Crusaders took game one 30-26 despite hitting just .128 for the game. Game two was tight with the Brown and Gold prevailing 38-36. The Quakers won game three 30-20 led by a .320 hitting percentage, before Valpo finished off the match with a 30-25 victory in game four.
Robinson hit .333 for the match with two aces to add to her nightly performance.
Marion Hansen (Huntley, Ill./Huntley H.S.) added 15 kills and 15 digs for the Crusaders, while Lauren Moulton (Elgin, Ill./Larkin H.S.) tallied seven blocks and Heather Hynds (Sylvan Lake, Ill./Mundelein H.S.) added six. Cyndi Norman (Minooka, Ill./Minooka H.S.) dished out 45 assists for the Brown and Gold.
Stacey Carter led Penn (0-1) with 17 kills and 23 digs, while Michelle Kauffman added 15 kills while hitting .367 for the match.
Valpo (3-2) outhit Penn .170-.153 for the contest while outdigging the Quakers 98-87 and holding an 11-9 advantage on blocks.
The Crusaders will play two matches on Saturday, facing the host Hoyas at 11 a.m. CDT and Long Island at 4 p.m. CDT.
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A married, Republican, Southern mayor who unsuccessfully ran for Congress on a "conservative, family-values platform" later forced to reveal he's gay? Still boring! Call me when the Rick Santorum gay orgy scandal comes to light — we all know that one's going to be epic.
At least Southhaven, Mississippi Mayor Greg Davis ups the ante for your run-of-the-mill Republican gay sex scandal by allegedly having the taxpayers foot the bill for some extra-governmental purchases…
The receipts were provided to state auditors in hopes of decreasing the approximately $170,000 they have demanded Davis repay the city for improper charges to both his city-issued and personal credit cards. Auditors asked city aldermen, who approved the expenses, to review the receipts before making a decision on accepting them to reduce Davis' payments…
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I'm willing to cut the mayor some slack. You have to keep the head of Mississippi's third largest municipality in good spirits, even if it takes public appropriations, because otherwise…I don't know, but something terrible is bound to happen. The really troubling question is, how can America win the future when even small-town mayors are doing their shopping at Canadian gay lifestyle stores? Buy American, people!


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Does Art Help the Economy?
- By Kyle Thetford
- The Atlantic
- July 17, 2013
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An unexpected upshot in the wake of Britain's latest spending review was the fate of the culture budget -- it avoided a pummeling. What might be considered an easy target in a time of austerity emerged relatively unscathed, with only a 5 percent decrease in funding from £472 million to £451 million.
The arts world had already been hit by a 30 percent cut meted out in the 2010 budget and had been waiting to find out whether they might be granted a reprieve at this latest round of belt-tightening.
This time, advocates for arts funding breathed a collective sigh of relief, with the budget reduction described as a "best-case scenario" -- they had been bracing for much larger cuts.
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