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Has the time for healthcare reform finally arrived?
Reform proposals are being discussed in Washington and legislation is expected to be introduced later this year. There seems to be agreement that something must be done about the way health care is funded in the United States.
But proponents of a single-payer national health plan are finding it difficult to be heard.
Single-payer supporters at first were not invited to a March forum on healthcare reform hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House. Two individuals did attend the event after they raised an outcry in the press.
Congressional leaders have been blunt about their opposition. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently told a group of reporters, "As our members came back from their recess, a great deal of what they heard out there was public options. In our caucus, over and over again, we hear single-payer, single-payer, single-payer. Well, it's not going to be a single-payer."
In a February 2009 New York Times/CBS poll of American taxpayers, 59% said the government should provide national health insurance. "The public increasingly wants a national health plan. While it is clear that a single-payer system saves the most money, the government seems determined not to consider it," said Karen Ballard, NYSNA president-elect.
A single-payer national health plan is often described as "Medicare for all." With the successful Medicare program as a model, the government would fund and administer a health insurance plan for all Americans.
Contrary to statements made by for-profit health insurers and their supporters, a single-payer plan is not "nationalized medicine" or "socialized medicine." Patients would choose their providers, as they do now.
Legislation to create a national health plan (H.R.676) has 72 co-sponsors in Congress. It has been endorsed by more than 520 state and local unions, including NYSNA. A similar bill (S703) has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.
H.R.676 calls for a modest increase in personal income tax and employer payroll taxes. For individuals, the tax would be offset by the elimination of co-pays, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket expenses. Employers would realize savings from no longer having to pay high premium costs for employer-based health coverage.
The reform proposals receiving the most support in Washington involve offering public insurance as an option, in addition to the private plans. This would be similar to conventional Medicare, but it would compete with private insurance plans. There is concern that this will not fix the patchwork system we have now and might make it worse.
"A public plan option could work only if everyone is automatically enrolled," said Ballard. "Individuals would have to opt out if they preferred a private plan. It also would have to include those 55 and over and provide comprehensive coverage for children/young adults up to age 25."
Any system based on a combination of public and private insurance plans must address the problem that more than 30% of each dollar spent on health care in the U.S. covers administrative costs, twice the percentage of countries with national health plans.
"A government-supported national health plan would make a major difference in the way nursing is practiced," said Ballard. "It would remove many obstacles to quality nursing care that we have almost come to accept as normal." Some examples:
Emergency room visits would decline, allowing practitioners to focus on genuine emergencies.
Universal preventive care would eventually reduce hospital admittance rates and have an impact on chronic understaffing.
Patients' length of stay would be appropriate to their medical condition rather than dictated by their insurance plan.
Community follow-up would be covered for everyone, reducing the currently high rate of rehospitalization.
Complementary and alternative therapies would be more readily available; many of which are provided by nurses – massage, biofeedback, hypnosis, acupressure, aromatherapy, guided imagery, meditation, relaxation and therapeutic touch/healing touch.
While single-payer health coverage is being discussed at the national level, some states are considering healthcare reform within their own borders.
On May 5, Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried and State Senator Thomas Duane announced the introduction of New York Health Plus (A7854/S4884). The bill is supported by NYSNA.
New York Health Plus builds on the Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus programs to provide a full benefit package that is more comprehensive than most commercial health insurance programs. All New Yorkers would be eligible, regardless of income. Individuals would choose from among participating health plans, as they do now under Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus.
Can New York implement such a plan on its own? Supporters say that laws creating workers compensation, senior citizen drug benefits, and Child Health Plus were enacted in New York long before they were adopted at the national level. Expansion of Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus would not require changes in federal legislation.
At least 10 states have legislation under consideration this year, including New York. Supporters point to the Canadian experience, where Saskatchewan had single-payer health coverage nearly 20 years before the system was adopted by the nation as a whole.
Starting during Nurses Week, a new feature at nysna.org will give you the tools you need to inform yourself and others about the need for healthcare reform and a single-payer national health plan.
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Summary of Regulatory Options to Regulate Seafood Imports under Marine Mammal Protection ActNational Marine Fisheries Service Advanced Notice of Proposed RulemakingDeadline for Comment August 30, 2010In response to a petition filed by Turtle Island Restoration Network and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to enforce a longstanding provision of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) by banning swordfish imports, the U.S. government is requesting comments on proposed standards to regulate all seafood products imported into the U.S. in compliance with the MMPA. The MMPA was enacted by the U. S. Congress in 1972 to address the imminent and dire threat that the worldwide commercial fishing industry imposed on marine mammal populations. However, the federal government for decades has failed to enforce a critical provision of the law, Section 101(a)(2).This law requires the U.S. government to ban the importation of commercial fish or fish products that have been caught with commercial fishing technology which results in the incidental kill or incidental serious injury of marine mammals in excess of United States standards. [16 U.S.C. § 1371(a)(2)]. Notably, the law requires the import-supplying nation to submit proof to the U.S. government that its seafood products meet U.S. marine mammal standards.In order to define United States standards and establish a framework for finally implementing this provision, the National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) has proposed the following possible approaches in an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (RIN 0648AX36):1) Apply standards found in existing MMPA marine mammal protection and bycatch reduction regulations to international fisheries seeking to sell seafood in the U.S.2) Apply existing Endangered Species Act (ESA) jeopardy criteria in assessing impacts of international fisheries seeking to sell seafood in the U.S.3) Evaluate whether international fisheries seeking to sell seafood to the U.S. have implemented their own regulations to address marine mammal bycatch that are comparable to regulations implemented by the U.S.4) A combination of two or more of these standards.Within these general management guidance principles, NMFS is currently requesting comments on nine specific possible options; five of the specific options relate to MMPA; two of the specific options derive from the ESA; two final options are derived from either high-seas or domestic fishery management regulations.NMFS is also seeking comment on the procedures that could be used to evaluate fisheries for compliance with U.S. standards, such as the processes detailed in the MMPA and high-seas driftnet treaty (HSDFMPA), including proof of compliance, consultation with non-complying nations, allowing time for fisheries to comply and prohibition of imports from non-complying fisheries.In the case of every option NMFS is considering, the first step for determining whether an import-supplying nation has met U.S. standards must be to determine whether the nation has in place an independent fisheries observer program capable to producing robust, reliable data on the fisherys bycatch. Where data is lacking, the U.S. government may not assume that bycatch is not significant. Rather, the U.S. must demand such data as a precondition to allowing import of the nations seafood and seafood products. MMPA Options. - See MMPA at http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/laws/mmpa.pdfOption 1: Evaluate whether marine mammal bycatch in import-supplying fisheries is maintained at a level below Potential Biological Removal (PBR) for marine mammal stocks. Preferred Option.We support using the PBR standard as the basic standard of compliance. The PRG is defined as the number of animals that may be removed from a marine mammal stock while allowing that stock to reach or maintain its optimum sustainable population. In order to comply with the MMPA, a fishery must reduce and maintain marine mammal bycatch below the PBR for a given stock.Option 2: Evaluate whether such bycatch has been reduced to insignificant levels approaching a zero mortality and serious injury rate to the extent feasible, taking into account different conditions. The MMPA requires U.S. commercial fisheries to reduce incidental mortality and serious injury of marine mammals to insignificant levels approaching a zero mortality and serious injury rate.To comply with this standard, a fishery must reduce and maintain marine mammal bycatch at or below PBR levels and prioritize a goal of reaching zero mortality and serious injury. Under the MMPA, take reduction teams can be established to implement fishery management measures to reach these goals. We recognize that a number of domestic fisheries have yet to reach the zero mortality rate goal (ZMRG). Therefore, we support using the PBR standard as the basic standard of compliance, particularly for fisheries the U.S. equivalents of which have not attained ZMRG. However, both domestic and international fisheries must work toward the longer term goal of achieving ZMRG. Option 3: Evaluate whether marine mammal bycatch in import-supplying fisheries is maintained at levels below PBR or at levels comparable to those actually achieved in comparable U.S. fisheries, whichever is higher. We do not support this option. Many but not all U. S. fisheries have met the MMPA requirements to reduce marine mammal bycatch at levels below PBR or approaching zero by-catch. The proposed Option 3 would allow fisheries that achieve bycatch levels comparable to U.S. fisheries to be considered compliant, even if the U.S. fishery itself were not meeting MMPA requirements. It is not clear if this would be an overall average, or fishery by fishery, or otherwise.Option 4: Evaluate whether marine mammal bycatch in import-supplying fisheries either causes the depletion of a marine mammal stock below its optimum sustainable population or impedes the ability of a depleted stock to recover to its optimum sustainable population. We do not support this option as a basic standard for compliance. We could support this evaluation as a supplemental consideration to Option 1 if the following conditions were met: (1) NMFS were to base its evaluation of whether an import-supplying nations bycatch reduction is commensurate with U.S. bycatch reduction measures on rigorous statistical modeling using reliable, independent observer data, and (2) such modeling demonstrated that the nation is meeting the basic PBR standard. Domestically, the U. S. manages marine mammal bycatch based on PBR levels to achieve the goal of allowing marine mammal stocks to reach or maintain their optimum sustainable populations. Replacing that standard with this proposed option would place a significantly less defined and less stringent requirements on import-supplying fisheries than those placed on domestic fisheries. Option 5: Relying on standards from MMPA emergency regulations, evaluate whether bycatch in import-supplying fisheries has, or is likely to have, an immediate and significant adverse impact on a marine mammal stock. Under the MMPA, the NMFS can take emergency actions to reduce marine mammal bycatch in a fishery depending on whether take reduction teams are in place, being developed or not in place. Provisions related to fisheries without take reduction teams rely on consultation with several U.S. agencies including fishery councils. However, because these entities do not exist for foreign fisheries, most of these provisions would not apply. Therefore, this option does not seem to translate entirely to the international management context. However, we agree that NMFS should be given the authority and mandate take emergency measures to ban certain fisheries or impose immediate changes to reduce marine mammal bycatch while protective measures are being developed.ESA OPTIONSOption 6: Evaluate whether bycatch in import-supplying fisheries is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered or threatened marine mammal species. For this option, NMFS is also considering whether and how to apply such possible standards uniformly to bycatch of foreign or international marine mammal species that are endangered or threatened, but have not been evaluated or listed under the ESA. The MMPA was designed to ensure the conservation of vibrant marine mammal populations as well as to prevent harm to individual animals. The MMPA therefore sets a more protective standard than the ESA by keeping populations well above the level of jeopardy. In keeping with the MMPAs intent, NMFS should primarily base it regulatory definition of U.S. standards on those set forth by the MMPA, as in Options 1 and 2 aboveWhile the standards found in the MMPA itself should be used to measure compliance of import-supplying fisheries, the threatened or endangered status of marine mammals caught in a foreign fishery could provide a means to prioritize enforcement. In addition, measures implemented in the U.S. to protect ESA-listed marine mammals can provide useful ideas for protective measures in foreign fisheries. Option 7: Evaluate more broadly whether bycatch by import-supplying fisheries is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of a marine mammal species. This assessment could be beneficial in prioritizing enforcement of MMPA section 101(a)(2), but does not provide the appropriate standard for determining whether an import-supplying nation has met the standards set forth under the MMPA. Those standards are provided by Options 1 and 2. However, it may be useful for the agency to consider whether a given type of gear or a specific fishery is likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any marine mammal species when the agency is prioritizing which imports must be banned most urgently.Other OptionsOption 8: Evaluate whether marine mammal bycatch in a foreign nation's import-supplying fisheries is managed effectively by a relevant international fisheries management or conservation organization, or by the fishing nation itself. We oppose this option, as it provides neither a relevant U.S. standard nor an effective measure of a foreign fisherys impact on marine mammals. International treaties are often not well implemented or rigorous enough to protect marine mammals from bycatch. While an evaluation could be beneficial, standards for determining compliance with the MMPA should not be based on international fisheries agreements, which tend to have only very general bycatch reduction requirements and are rarely enforced. Moreover, the MMPA itself refers to U.S. standards, which are plainly derived from U.S. law.Option 9: Evaluate whether foreign nations that supply fish and fish product imports to the U.S. have implemented regulations to address marine mammal bycatch in the nations' import-supplying fisheries that are comparable to regulations implemented by the U.S., taking into account different conditions. We oppose this option. Without first defining U.S. standards, determining whether import-supplying nations have comparable regulations would likely be a difficult and circular exercise. While such an evaluation could be beneficial in determining what particular measures may be sufficient or effective in meeting the basic standards of working towards ZMRG and maintaining bycatch at or below PBR, it does not in itself provide a standard by which to judge overall compliance. Summary of Options for Procedures to Enforce Fishery Compliance with MMPANMFS is considering a process with four components for evaluating bycatch in foreign import-supplying fisheries that would integrate processes from the MMPA (Sections 117 and 118) and the HSDFMPA (Section 610).Step 1: Nations provide proof of impact of those fisheries on marine mammals.Reasonable proof would be information that indicates a nation meets U.S. marine mammal bycatch standards.We support this process, as this basic information is clearly required under the MMPA. In order to meet U.S. standards, reasonable proof must be provided by robust, reliable data derived from an independent fisheries observer program.Step 2: Initiate consultation with nations that dont or cant provide proof and/or meet MMPA standards. Consultation is broadly defined to be consistent with the process delineated in the high seas drift gillnet treaty. We support a brief and finite consultation process. However, where available information indicates that a fishery is having a significant adverse impact on marine mammals and the nation cannot or will not provide information to demonstrate otherwise, the prohibition on imports from that fishery should be put in place immediately.Step 3: Allow time for consultation and proof of compliance to be completed.As noted above, time for consultation should be limited and related to the fisherys impacts on marine mammals. Where a fishery is known to have significant adverse impacts on marine mammals and the nation cannot or will not provide information to demonstrate otherwise, imports provided by that fishery should be banned immediately and consultation begun to reform the fishery. The ban should not be lifted until consultation is completed and measures implemented to meet the MMPA standards.Step 4: Prohibit import of fish and fish products from nations that fail to comply after consultation. We support this step and again urge that consultations be brief, clearly delineated and finite.Intermediary nationsNMFS is proposing an approach similar to that required with respect to yellowfin tuna and yellowfin tuna products, whereby that intermediary nations that dont fish but re-export fish must certify and provide reasonable proof that they have not imported within the preceding six months any fish or fish products that are subject to a U.S. import ban. We support the application of this approach to other fisheries.We urge NMFS to proceed expeditiously with a formal rulemaking to implement and enforce MMPA section 101(a)(2), as described above. Final regulations implementing this law are vital to ensuring that the core purposes of the MMPA are met and that imports from harmful international fisheries, such as longline and gillnet fisheries targeting swordfish, are swiftly prohibited and these fisheries eventually reformed.Teri Shore, Turtle Island Restoration Network, firstname.lastname@example.com Treece, Center for Biological Diversity, email@example.com 2010


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Member Posts: 1 (1/2/03 5:17:47 pm) Reply | Edit | Del All Winchester Model 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a Winchester Model 12 that is 100% original. The S/N is 363132 which places it's manufacture date at 1923. It's a 12 Ga. w/Solid Rib. No special ID as far as "trap", etc. so my guess it's a "Standard". Very little of the bluing is left and it has NOT been reblued. This is a family piece that has been handed down for 3 generations so far. My Dad still uses it on occasion and it works great! My questions are: 1. What is the approximate value 2. Is a copy of the owners manual, instructions, parts list still available? Bob Xracer *TFF Senior Staff* Posts: 3397 (1/2/03 6:30:28 pm) Reply | Edit | Del Re: Winchester Model 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Bob.....welcome to TFF. Your Model 12, 12 ga. with a solid rib is valued as follows: 60% = $190 70% = 245 80% = 315 While the dollar value isn't high, as a 3rd generation shotgun, I'll bet the sentimental value and the hunting memories are priceless.....you've got a good ol' girl there. You can get a schematic and parts list from GunPartsCorp. Part # PDF0522 www.e-gunparts.com/schematics.asp I checked the Winchester site, but they don't offer a manual for the Model 12, but you can get an disassembly/assembly manual here for $5.00: www.survival.com.mx/gunra...books.html BobNichols Member Posts: 2 (1/3/03 9:36:34 am) Reply | Edit | Del Model 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please help out a novice here: what is the "80%" etc. referring to? Bob Xracer *TFF Senior Staff* Posts: 3410 (1/3/03 5:28:13 pm) Reply | Edit | Del Re: Model 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generally speaking, it's the percentage of finish left.....however, on older guns, that becomes a bit elastic. If much of the bluing is gone, but there's no rust or pits, the gun is still working well and fairly tight, and the wood is good condition, I would put it at 60%. Anyway.....who cares about the $$$$ value? This gun is a member of the family....I sure hope you're not planning on selling it. BobNichols Member Posts: 3 (1/3/03 6:54:52 pm) Reply | Edit | Del Model 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No WAY are we selling it. But I want it appraised (generally) for Insurance purposes. Thanks again! |
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Consider a function . Function is bijective if and only if it is both injective and surjective. We say that is a finite function if and only if both and are finite sets.
In this post, we will restrict our attention to finite functions. For finite functions, we already know how to decide injectivity and surjectivity. Hence, deciding the bijectivity of finite functions is now trivial. In Haskell, we create the following three predicates:
isInjective :: (Eq a, Eq b) => (a -> b) -> [a] -> Bool isInjective f xs = all phi [(x1,x2) | x1 <- xs, x2 <- xs] where phi (x1,x2) = (f x1 /= f x2) || (x1 == x2) isSurjective :: Eq b => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] -> Bool isSurjective f xs ys = all psi ys where psi y = or [(f x == y) | x <- xs] isBijective :: (Eq a, Eq b) => (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] -> Bool isBijective f xs ys = (isInjective f xs) && (isSurjective f xs ys)
Note that predicate isInjective takes as inputs a function and a list (the domain), whereas predicate isSurjective takes as inputs a function and two lists (the domain and the codomain). Both return either True or False. Predicate isBijective is defined using the conjunction of the other two predicates. In this implementation, we separated the decision procedure from the definition of .
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Let us define . Consider the finite function
where denotes modulo 4 arithmetic. We know that this function is both injective and surjective. Hence, it is bijective. Here's a GHCi session (after running the Haskell script above):
*Main> let f n = (3 * n) `mod` 4 *Main> isInjective f [0..3] True *Main> isSurjective f [0..3] [0..3] True *Main> isBijective f [0..3] [0..3] True
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Consider now the following finite function
We already know that function is neither injective nor surjective. Hence, it is not bijective. Here's a GHCi session:
*Main> let g n = (2 * n) `mod` 4 *Main> isInjective g [0..3] False *Main> isSurjective g [0..3] [0..3] False *Main> isBijective g [0..3] [0..3] False


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The SPCH1 Region on Human 7q31: Genomic Characterization of the Critical Interval and Localization of Translocations Associated with Speech and Language Disorder The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 67, Issue 2, 1 August 2000, Pages 357-368 Cecilia S.L. Lai, Simon E. Fisher, Jane A. Hurst, Elaine R. Levy, Shirley Hodgson, Margaret Fox, Stephen Jeremiah, Susan Povey, D. Curtis Jamison, Eric D. Green, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem and Anthony P. Monaco Abstract The KE family is a large three-generation pedigree in which half the members are affected with a severe speech and language disorder that is transmitted as an autosomal dominant monogenic trait. In previously published work, we localized the gene responsible (SPCH1) to a 5.6-cM region of 7q31 between D7S2459 and D7S643. In the present study, we have employed bioinformatic analyses to assemble a detailed BAC-/PAC-based sequence map of this interval, containing 152 sequence tagged sites (STSs), 20 known genes, and >7.75 Mb of completed genomic sequence. We screened the affected chromosome 7 from the KE family with 120 of these STSs (average spacing <100 kb), but we did not detect any evidence of a microdeletion. Novel polymorphic markers were generated from the sequence and were used to further localize critical recombination breakpoints in the KE family. This allowed refinement of the SPCH1 interval to a region between new markers 013A and 330B, containing ∼6.1 Mb of completed sequence. In addition, we have studied two unrelated patients with a similar speech and language disorder, who have de novo translocations involving 7q31. Fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses with BACs/PACs from the sequence map localized the t(5;7)(q22;q31.2) breakpoint in the first patient (CS) to a single clone within the newly refined SPCH1 interval. This clone contains the CAGH44 gene, which encodes a brain-expressed protein containing a large polyglutamine stretch. However, we found that the t(2;7)(p23;q31.3) breakpoint in the second patient (BRD) resides within a BAC clone mapping >3.7 Mb distal to this, outside the current SPCH1 critical interval. Finally, we investigated the CAGH44 gene in affected individuals of the KE family, but we found no mutations in the currently known coding sequence. These studies represent further steps toward the isolation of the first gene to be implicated in the development of speech and language. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (2231 kb) |
FISH Mapping of De Novo Apparently Balanced Chromosome Rearrangements Identifies Characteristics Associated with Phenotypic Abnormality The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 82, Issue 4, 11 April 2008, Pages 916-926 J.A. Fantes, E. Boland, J. Ramsay, D. Donnai, M. Splitt, J.A. Goodship, H. Stewart, M. Whiteford, P. Gautier, L. Harewood, S. Holloway, F. Sharkey, E. Maher, V. van Heyningen, J. Clayton-Smith, D.R. Fitzpatrick and G.C.M. Black Abstract We report fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) mapping of 152, mostly de novo, apparently balanced chromosomal rearrangement (ABCR) breakpoints in 76 individuals, 30 of whom had no obvious phenotypic abnormality (control group) and 46 of whom had an associated disease (case group). The aim of this study was to identify breakpoint characteristics that could discriminate between these groups and which might be of predictive value in de novo ABCR (DN-ABCR) cases detected antenatally. We found no difference in the proportion of breakpoints that interrupted a gene, although in three cases, direct interruption or deletion of known autosomal-dominant or X-linked recessive Mendelian disease genes was diagnostic. The only significant predictor of phenotypic abnormality in the group as a whole was the localization of one or both breakpoints to an R-positive (G-negative) band with estimated predictive values of 0.69 (95% CL 0.54–0.81) and 0.90 (95% CL 0.60–0.98), respectively. R-positive bands are known to contain more genes and have a higher guanine-cytosine (GC) content than do G-positive (R-negative) bands; however, whether a gene was interrupted by the breakpoint or the GC content in the 200kB around the breakpoint had no discriminant ability. Our results suggest that the large-scale genomic context of the breakpoint has prognostic utility and that the pathological mechanism of mapping to an R-band cannot be accounted for by direct gene inactivation. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (452 kb) |
Association of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to the Region of 7q31 The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 72, Issue 6, 1 June 2003, Pages 1536-1543 Erin K. O'Brien, Xuyang Zhang, Carla Nishimura, J. Bruce Tomblin and Jeffrey C. Murray Abstract FOXP2 (forkhead box P2) was the first gene characterized in which a mutation affects human speech and language abilities. A common developmental language disorder, specific language impairment (SLI), affects 6%–7% of children with normal nonverbal intelligence and has evidence of a genetic basis in familial and twin studies. FOXP2 is located on chromosome 7q31, and studies of other disorders with speech and language impairment, including autism, have found linkage to this region. In the present study, samples from children with SLI and their family members were used to study linkage and association of SLI to markers within and around FOXP2, and samples from 96 probands with SLI were directly sequenced for the mutation in exon 14 of FOXP2. No mutations were found in exon 14 of FOXP2, but strong association was found to a marker within the CFTR gene and another marker on 7q31, D7S3052, both adjacent to FOXP2, suggesting that genetic factors for regulation of common language impairment reside in the vicinity of FOXP2. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (481 kb) |
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The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 68, Issue 4, 848-858, 1 April 2001
Erwin Petek1, 2, , , Christian Windpassinger1, John B. Vincent2, Joseph Cheung2, Andrew P. Boright2, Stephen W. Scherer2, Peter M. Kroisel1 and Klaus Wagner1
1 Institute for Medical Biology and Human Genetics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
2 Department of Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto
Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by multiple motor and phonic tics. We identified a male patient with GTS and other anomalies. It was determined that he carried a de novo duplication of the long arm of chromosome 7 [46,XY,dup(7)(q22.1-q31.1)]. Further molecular analysis revealed that the duplication was inverted. The distal chromosomal breakpoint occurred between the two genetic markers D7S515 and D7S522, which define a region previously shown to be disrupted in a familiar case of GTS. Yeast and bacterial artificial chromosome clones spanning the breakpoints were identified by means of FISH analysis. To further characterize the distal breakpoint for a role in GTS, we performed Southern blot hybridization analysis and identified a 6.5-kb SacI junction fragment in the patient's genomic DNA. The DNA sequence of this fragment revealed two different breaks in 7q31 within a region of ∼500 kb. IMMP2L, a novel gene coding for the apparent human homologue of the yeast mitochondrial inner membrane peptidase subunit 2, was found to be disrupted by both the breakpoint in the duplicated fragment and the insertion site in 7q31. The cDNA of the human IMMP2L gene was cloned, and analysis of the complete 1,522-bp transcript revealed that it encompassed six exons spanning 860 kb. The possible role of IMMP2L and several other candidate genes within the region of chromosomal rearrangement, including NRCAM, Leu-Rch Rep, and Reelin, is discussed. The 7q31 breakpoint interval has also been implicated in other neuropsychiatric diseases that demonstrate some clinical overlap with GTS, including autism and speech-language disorder.


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3.9/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
This one has been kept at ambient concrete poured basement temperature in Madison, WI for two years.
Pours out a cloudy burnt sienna with orange highlights and a flash head that leaves behind no lacing. Lighter side of medium body, light carbonation levels, dry crisp finish.
It still has a surprisingly strong aroma of cracked black pepper and sweet beets with a side of dill, rosemary, sage, and other savory sort of herbal notes. But compared to the nasal skull explosion of black pepper it had fresh, aging it two years has been just the thing to get it mellowed it down from "too much of a good thing" to "the right amount of a good thing." As it warms up it gains a subtle background bloody mary tomato and chili / lemon-lime peel aroma that blends well with a small amount of yeast phenols. As a fresh beer, none of these elements were allowed to truly shine over the pepper. As an aged beer, it smells amazing.
It tastes of a rather challenging level of leathery Belgian phenolics that wasn't as apparent in the nose, combined with that time-softened pepperpot sting that gradually pulls back from over the top of a bone-dry biscuit-cracker malt remnant with some medium-light cardboard oxidation popping up in the mid-sip alongside lemon peel and a vague vegetal (tomato) ghost in the finish. Where's the beets?
And here is where I realized that I should have checked it somewhere between one and two years, because the sweet spot was probably in that time period. I overshot. It's still drinkable and even pretty tasty, but nearly all of the beet sugar has converted into Brett phenol funkiness, and I wanted to retain a higher level of that beet essence in the flavor than this. The pepper levels are tamed, but the Brett murdered the beet flavor. Even so, it does make an amazing glass of peppery-seasoned sweaty horse saddle for the Brett-lover.
Serving type: bottle
09-10-2012 22:55:46 | More by WastingFreetime
2.08/5 rDev -40.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
Brought by scubarex to our Epic Chicago Tasting.
A - Brownish red colored beer, little bit purple. Decent sized head with little retention.
S - Wow, talk about a pepper bomb. I like some beets, and I like some pepper, although I've never thought of peppering beets. This smells more like someone tried to beet some pepper and failed.
T - Pepper pepper pepper pepper pepper... get the drift? Of course you do, you're much smarter than I give you credit for. This is just a massive amount of black pepper in this, which I actually like for about 3-4 sips, but then it becomes way too much. The beets are there as a buried backbone.
M - Moderate carbonation, medium bodied.
D - Ouch, I drank some, but then the pepper becomes too much. Interesting experiment, but this didn't work.
Serving type: bottle
12-25-2010 21:13:40 | More by AgentZero
2.58/5 rDev -26.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
I've enjoyed all the Furthermore beers I've had, and I had no idea this was coming out. Thank you, Joel!
Pinkish red with a dense, off-white head with good retention and nice lacing, this is a pretty good looking beer. The nose is pretty intriguing. The beets are immediately noticeable. Sweet, sugary and definitely beet-like, there's also a touch of pepper. There's a definite rose water present, and the entire package reminds me of rooh afza.
The palate opens with an intense beet flavor, super strong and almost astringent, as well as with some alcohol. Again, the rose water and rooh afza/ faluda-like. The pepper character is light, and hardly noticeable over the intense beet character. The finish has a blend of sweet beets and rose water with a touch of pepper. The alcohol is quite noticeable too, and is not particularly well-integrated. Drying, this beer has a medium-light body and is moderately carbonated. Unique but not particularly enjoyable.
Serving type: bottle
09-13-2010 02:56:59 | More by DefenCorps
2.2/5 rDev -37.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
Brought to our epic tasting...Pours a light carbonated red that is pretty foamy with lots of retention...The aroma and taste on this are all one thing BLACK PEPPER and the strong pepper you have ever smelled at that. You cannot sniff this for more than a second or take a big sip without almost gagging. There were 10 of us and we coudln't drink more than half the bottle.
Pepper bomb that needs to have production stopped.
Serving type: bottle
08-04-2010 21:08:07 | More by jrallen34
3.2/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
12 oz bottle in a snifter. "Serve in a snifter or wine glass at 55° F" no date.
A - Refur pours out a brilliant clear red copper color with an off-white low but persistent foamy head. Moderate retention ended up leaving the head in a film of bubbles with no lace.
S - The red beets and black pepper certainly give the olfactory senses a rude awakening! Spicy pepper overshadows everything with a glorious "Bruery-like" scent that's unexpected. The beets add an odd but good vegetal aroma that subtly pokes out between the pepper. Toasted caramel malts and mild hops hide in the background of the spiciness.
T - Red beet flavor takes a shocking turn as it overwhelms both the pepper as well as the malty beer flavor. It's far too powerful as it elevates the nice vegetal hint in the nose to astronomical heights. Malts are all but lost offering only a sliver of toasted bread up.
M - Dry astringency bombards the mouth with an unwelcome "green" vegetable feel and sour finish. Otherwise it weighs in with a medium body and a crisp carbonation finish.
D - This turned disappointing quickly. The nose didn't predict what the flavor had going on at all and it's unique taste that first took me by surprise now grows to be off-putting. I applaud their ingenuity with the red beets but they seem to only effect the appearance of the beer positively.
Serving type: bottle
07-05-2010 17:58:48 | More by BeerFMAndy
3.13/5 rDev -10.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
A. Hazy amber to light orange appearance with a substantial off white head. Fades rather quickly to a skim and leaves spotty lacing.
S. Funky sweet spiced berry nose - lots going on here with a nice play of sweet and spicy battling it out. Very unique and looking forward to a sip.
T. Geez, this takes a nose dive in the taste department. Pepper and more pepper - nothing really carries over from the nose (if its there it is buried below the pepper). There is some light closing bitterness once the pepper subsides.
M. Medium bodied with low carbonation. No complaints here.
D. This beer could have been killer if the pepper where balanced against some fruit and malt. Tough to finish even 12 ounces of this stuff. Unique creation from Furthermore that I am glad to have tried.
Serving type: bottle
06-16-2010 02:07:01 | More by bound4er
2.53/5 rDev -27.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
My grandfather used to pour Pabst into a frosty mug, crack a raw egg on top, and then toss in a dash of pepper. He drank it because he said "it puts lead in your pencil". At the time, I didn't understand what that meant. Actually, I still don't understand...
When I saw that this beer was brewed with Beets and Black Pepper, I thought "that sounds awful". So, of course, I had to try a bottle! I'm happy to report that this meets expectations.
The black pepper is too hard on the palate and dominates the flavor. The beets seem only to add color. Not much more to say...
In all, this is not a "flawed" beer. It's just that the whole does not surpass the sum of it's parts. There was never a reason for me to believe that these flavors would go well together in a beer. It was a worthy experiment, however, so it is appropriate to grade it with at least an average score.
Unlike my grandfather, I just don't like the dominance of the black pepper in this beer (or any beer). I drained-poured the second half. It was fun to try, though.
Serving type: bottle
05-20-2010 00:39:40 | More by PrinceDarren
2.05/5 rDev -41.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
I love beets. I love pepper. I love beer. Mix all three together and it is a match made in heaven right?
Wrong. Smells tempting and looks inviting enough, but the pepper component dominates the taste and is bitter to boot. I could barely put down half a glass, and the remainder is sitting in my fridge likely awaiting a drain pour.
Creative enough idea, but the execution is not for me. Take away the pepper, and I may be interested again. You can certainly smell the beets, which would have been fun to taste as well.
Serving type: bottle
04-17-2010 03:03:04 | More by jwjon1
3.1/5 rDev -11.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
12 oz into a goblet
A - Pours a deep dark brown to red color - almost beet colored. Appears bottle fermented as I stirred up some yeast. Certainly opaque, very carbonated. Head was strong, but broke down to a film quickly.
S - Very spicy - as the label says, black pepper. Some of that sour beet smell does come through. Very interesting.
T - Starts off with a light vegetable sweetness and some peppery notes. Mid-stream gets more peppery, some phenolic tones come through. Finishes with a very strong potent black pepper flavor - tour grabbing as if straight out of a grinder.
M - Moderate beer body, but a very strong carbonation backbone. Stinging to the palette. Leaves behind an odd oily texture.
D - I can't call this drinkable. This peppery flavor is just wearing me down. The abv is a bit too potent. A hair filling.
This is one odd cat.
Serving type: bottle
03-26-2010 04:01:43 | More by katan
New Jersey
3.2/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Appearance: pours a cloudy reddish light brown color with a short 1/4" head. No lace develops.
Smell: sourness, pepper, and a bit of fruit-like sweetness comes through.
Taste: pepper is a bit strong here as the beets provide an almost fruit like sweetness and there is a mild yeast tone. There is a mild sourness throughout and a mellow bitterness wrapping it up.
Mouthfeel: medium bodied. Smooth and dry throughout.
Drinkabiltiy: this was a one glass beer but a very interesting flavored one. Personally I thought it was a bit all over the place, but I don't regret ordering it.
Serving type: on-tap
03-18-2010 22:58:43 | More by Gavage
3.68/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
A - Deep red with pink hues and a off white head.
S - Slightly funky and earthy with fresh beets from the garden and pepper.
T - A bit of funk with fresh beets. Earthy with a spicy pepper finish.
M - Medium body with good carbonation and a linger beet sweetness.
D - One of the strangest beers I have ever had. No idea it was 8.1% abv. I hate beets and this is very intriguing that I really enjoy although it is going down slow. A 5 for creativity. Can't wait for future strange beers from Furthermore.
Serving type: bottle
03-08-2010 01:59:36 | More by brewcrew76
New Jersey
3.58/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
Bottle received as an extra in a trade at least 6 months ago. It's been sitting in the refrigerator the whole time and I haven't had the desire to crack the brew until now.
Appearance: Pours a nice slightly hazy red brown to garnet with a massive light brown crown that shows loads of retention and lace.
Smell: Wow this is different from any other brew I have ever smelled. Earthy, with red beets, and a vergitable quality and a slightly menthol like note.
Taste: Lots of vegetable green-ness along with a slightly bitter acrid quality. Very yeasty and beet like.
Mouthfeel: medium bodied and despite the massive head, the body seems a touch undercarbonated.
Drinkability: Couldn't pay me to keep drinking this.
Serving type: bottle
11-25-2009 00:34:49 | More by koopa
3.43/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Its ok but not really my cup of tea. Appearance is decent, red in color with some slight head, and no lacing. Smell is decent with some vegetableness and a slight amount of hops. Taste is not that great to me, very beety, I've had a lot of vege/fruit beers that I enjoyed more than this. Mouthfeel is alright, medium in body, some carbonation. Drinkability is alright.
Serving type: on-tap
09-13-2009 01:45:18 | More by supercolter
4.35/5 rDev +23.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Picked up a single of this last time I was in Wisco. Pours into my glass an extremely deep garnet red not unlike some borscht I've had before. A big creamy off white head with a pink highlight to it. Aromas start off with black pepper spiciness tickling the nose. Earthy, vegetal scents mix in. Kinda smells like the beets were just picked out of the ground. Sweetness underneath with a bit of a funky twist.
First sip brings a bold upfront entanglement of earthy distinct beet flavors and heavy handed black pepper. A nice sweet dark maltiness run throughout. It moves down with a bit of a sour twang with yeast esters and a nice kick of hops as well. Pepper lingers in the back of the throat. This one opens up more as it warms as well. I found it interesting, original and tasty, albeit I do love pepper beers.
Mouthfeel is on the lighter side with a big blast of fast moving carbonation that makes it champagne like as it flows down. Overall, I can't help but enjoy the bold peppery aspect this beer has and that fact that it's just weird...but somehow very tasty at the same time. I'm very glad I picked this up and wish I would have grabbed another. I hope Furthermore does something like this again.
Serving type: bottle
09-01-2009 02:15:59 | More by orbitalr0x
3.65/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
I had this in the back of my fridge for a month or so.
I was intrigued by the beets. Sweet, earthy, and red. All interesting things for beer.
Pours out a massive head of foam. High carbonation visible with the Sam Adam's glass. Smells peppery and earthy or musty. Like pink peppercorns.
Dark brown color.
Sweet. Dry and tangy. Kinda weird. Is this Belgian inspired?
Has a bitter vegetal aspect with up front fruitiness of some kind. Long heat from some black pepper capsaicin. Caramelized sugar.
This is clearly weird as hell. No wonder no one likes it.
It's too fizzy. And with the clumsy flavors and hot pepper it is hard to enjoy.
I like the idea. I like the beer, but I can't recommend people drinking it who have well developed tastes or don't like Belgian beers.
Serving type: bottle
07-17-2009 05:23:01 | More by Dotcubed
South Carolina
2.68/5 rDev -23.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
This is how we ended our little session, and I feel I am glad I did as it might not have worked earlier in the night. Let this one warm up a bit per the instructions on the bottle before splitting it into two wine glasses.
The pour was wrong. Way over carbonated with most of it losing out to the insane amount of foam on top. I had to go through five or six pours just to get the whole contents out, but once I did a brown colored liquid was left in the glass with foam all over the glass. Odd aroma, light fruit maybe, definite pepper here and a touch of some light caramel perhaps. But then I take a taste, hmm. Pepper all over the one for sure. Prickly on the tongue with a fiery finish. What I am assuming is the beats comes off more like a light grape or plum note that is drown out by loads of malt and that rouugh pepper note. Hard to drink too much of it as it really starts to get to you on the finsih..
Overall anything with pepper or chilis can be a mixed bag to say the least and no exception here. Not that this was bad persay, it was just lost i think. Carbonation issues killed it in the front and a bad mix of flavors in the end.
Serving type: bottle
07-12-2009 05:01:20 | More by mikesgroove
3.4/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 4
Foud a bottle buried in my beer fridge as a result of a DLD trade. Oops. Poured a hazy dark brown with a ton of head, like half of my glass. Once the head settledI tried it and was kind of surprised at the intense set of flavors. Initially it tastes almost like a kind of off bock. There is an earthy beet-like taste that hops up quickly and then fades to the background. The aftertaste is what gets me. A little peppery spiciness, but also the salty quality I get when I drink a good baltic porter. It goes down easy for a high abv, but the craziness of the flavors blows me out of the water and makes it harder to appreciate. Still glad I got to try it.
Serving type: bottle
06-27-2009 19:35:50 | More by degerbah
3.08/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
There were only two ways to pour this, to get insane, gusheresque head, or get no head at all. The appearance is the same I get out of homebrews that haven't gotten secondary fermentation, filtering, or any clearing agents. Aka, cloudy.
The smell reminds me of cold soup broth, lots of spicy and peppery smells. Close to a baltic porter in terms of spice.
The taste....well....it certainly has it. It's spicy, peppery, but also wheaty.
Overall, this beer is an interesting new take on a beer style but it seems almost like odd for oddness sake, and not as an improvement on beer as a whole.
Serving type: bottle
06-27-2009 19:34:42 | More by mwa423
3.78/5 rDev +7.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
I poured this from a 12oz brown bottle into a shaker pint glass.
A= This ale poured a dark reddish brown color with a ridiculous off-white head. Seriously, maybe I just got caught off guard, but at fridge temp, this thing produced 1/2" of beer and the rest of the glass sheer rocky foam on initial pour. Once the foam settled, there was a very active carbonation release througout and a few streaks of sticky lace left behind.
A= The arome profile was an interesting blend of sweet and peppery spice. Some yeast funk also in there for sure.
T= Started off sweet, but a different sort of sweet than "normally" found in ale...I guess that's the beet sugar. The pepper really took center stage through most of the flavor journey. I love black pepper so this was a very interesting thing for me to encounter. Finish was spicy and a bit tart, with said tartness quite possibly coming from some funky/wild yeast component.
MF= Medium bodied with a super high carbonation level. Felt "foamy".
D= This beer was like a liquid dare that went down pretty fine! Seriously, the peppery notes were extraordinary, but the odd "beetsugar" sweetness was a bit out there. Overall, an interesting beer I am glad I tried but would probably not go out of my way to drink again.
Serving type: bottle
06-19-2009 06:02:22 | More by spointon
4/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Received as an extra in a trade with eyncognito. Thanks!
Poured into a snifter. The beer is dark ruby and crowned with a large pillowy beige head that fades after two minutes. There's just a little lacing left on the glass.
The aroma is pretty interesting. It's peppery, spicy, and sugary, with some Brett that imparts mustiness. I don't know that I could have picked out the beet juice without having read the description, but it's noticeable now that I'm aware of it. Beet juice sounds pretty disgusting, I know, but it's subtle and actually complimentary. The sugar character becomes more candied as the beer warms past 55 degrees. Earthy hops are noticeable.
The flavor is very spicy up front, with notes of black pepper, segueing into dry and subtle Brett funkiness. Once again the beet juice is present, and once again it's pretty good. Dried fruits are evident, mainly banana and apple. The malt has notes of caramel underneath the candied sugar sweetness. The bitterness is at a low-medium level in the finish. The finish leaves my mouth completely dry.
The beer is medium bodied and I dig the high level of carbonation. This beer is very flavorful and definitely a sipper.
Serving type: bottle
Serving type: bottle
06-09-2009 06:07:18 | More by HopHead84
4.6/5 rDev +31.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
a: thick three-finger malted milkshake head floats atop a deep brown ale painted heavily with beet-red hues, the cap settles down to a full frothy coating and persists throughout
s: what strikes me first is the current of delicate brett sourness and wet hay funk, soft but assertive, and nearly identical to that found in Orval - though the beer underneath is quite different but equally or perhaps more complimentary, the malt is hard to describe - not quite fruity and not quite toasty - perhaps some combination of dried cherry and woodiness, and carrying a not-too-subtle flavor of raw freshly dug beets and a cracked pepper spice, some banana esters and brown sugar flit around as it warms, absolutely love this beer already
m: carbonation appropriately on the full side, with a body riding the light-medium line
t: malt body of woody dried tree fruits with a pale underside carries a farmhouse funk of rain soaked hay that gives a moderate sourness, dry all through - oxidized red wines, beet influence somewhat subtle but present in the crisp form of the uncooked root, the fresh pepper adds a graceful note of spice that's very well matched with the brett, finishes with a combination of funk and spicy dryness that just begs for another sip
d: by far my favorite of Furthermore's cutting-edge and disgracefully under-appreciated line to date, drinks more like a Belgian of modest abv, though the impact soon catches up, I'm a beet lover was initially attracted to this beer for that reason - but it turned out to be so much more than that
went pretty well with some aged gouda...single from the dirtman, bring me another dawg
4/14/2010 - highly carbonated, nearly a gusher, still a nice blend of funk and pepper, completely dry - somethings been going on in there, nose still exceptional - beet root and peppery with loads of hay, tons of brett here and on the tongue, really smacks the tongue hard, tart and lovely
Serving type: bottle
06-09-2009 04:56:40 | More by blackie
4/5 rDev +14%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz. bottle into a snifter
Pours a deep mahogany-red color with a gigantic two inch off-white head. It takes a while to subside and ultimately leaves decent lacing on the glass.
Aroma is very interesting. On one hand it's very sweet, I'm not sure how the beets play into this as I've never had a beet before, but I'm guessing it has something to do with it. The pepper is also noticeable here, quite strong actually. It makes for an interesting combo between the two. There might even be a bit of Brett in this, as there is a certain funk to it.
Taste is sweet up front as anticipated, it's a sugary sweetness, but not really a big malty sweetness. Hard to explain. Midway though the spicy notes from the pepper come in and they linger into the finish, leaving a slight "zing" in the back of the throat. Again, some funk is apparent leading me to believe there could be Brett?
Mouthfeel is medium-light, very creamy, but the carbonation is too high to the point where if you try to move it around the mouth it just creates a big foamy mouthfull.
A very interesting beer and probably not something I am likely to come by again. I recommend trying it just for the fact that it's so weird, and shit it's actually good too. Now I want to try an actual beet and see what it's like.
Serving type: bottle
05-17-2009 05:54:25 | More by roadhouse
Ontario (Canada)
3.83/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
EliteDigger hooked me up with this as an extra in a recent trade. thanks scott!
12oz bottle. sampled may 15/09.
pours deep purplish-red with a big white head. yep, like with everything else they touch, the beets have stained this beer. the head drops fairly fast but is easily roused with a gentle swirl. spotty lace. swirling a little more strongly shows a big thick head with a light purple tint.
aroma is wacky. lots of pepper. loads of earthy and woody character. fruity too. beet. date and plum. touch of caramel. bit of alcohol. floral too. white bread and cracker. leather. bit of horse blanket, but it seems to be more fruity/woody/funky than sour.
taste is wacky too. the first thing you notice is the high carbonation, but a little swirling helps to dissipate that. earthy and woody. floral and slightly perfumey. beet and notes of other root vegetables. pepper. bit fruity too. white bread and cracker. bit of leather and horse blanket too, but it's pretty mild. really more of an earthy/woody/veg/pepper thing.
mouthfeel is ok. carbonation is a little high. fairly light body with a nice dry finish.
drinkability is nice. the alcohol is hidden really well. it's a pretty complex and interesting beer. didn't really know what to expect going in, but it wasn't this. i think i like it!
Serving type: bottle
05-16-2009 02:00:44 | More by grub
Ontario (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
12 oz bottle, thanks for sharing grub!
Pours a lightly hazed dark reddish brown, kind of muddy looking, thick but big bubbled light tan head forms, quickly drops to a thick ring around the glass, tons of thick lacing sticks to the glass. Smell is pretty wacky, very sweet and funky, sour fruit, honey, very sugary, kind of beet like, very spicy and peppery, brown sugar, biscuity, really weird but kind of cool. Taste is very sweet and fruity, honey and brown sugar, very biscuity in the middle, lots of fruity character, cherries and strawberries, lightly sour, kind of tart and acidic in the finish, very peppery with some significant spice. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied, with very high carbonation, very rough character to it. Pretty neat fruit and spice character but theres something about it that doesn't sit right. Thanks Russ!
Serving type: bottle
05-16-2009 01:50:04 | More by Viggo
4.4/5 rDev +25.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Pours deep ruby with a monstrous, billowy head that subsides only minimally.
Smells like a vegetable garden. Serious veggies, some fertilizer, a bit of dirt and garden funk. Amazingly, it's really appealing.
Fat beets, serious fresh peeper, robust smack of vegetative goo. Gunky dank salad mix fresh from the earth. Brett is added, which makes this funk nice and sour as well. Funky dank sourness, gitty up.
Walking the line between allowing this beer to continue opening up as it mellows, and pounding this bad boy down with vigor. A surprise treat.
Serving type: bottle
05-05-2009 00:21:11 | More by BarrytheBear
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A proposed law in Albany named for disgraced former State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Junior reportedly would crack down on lawmakers who do not file campaign contribution documents.
According to the New York Post, the new bill - titled "Espada's Law" - would punish state lawmakers who repeatedly avoid filing mandatory contribution and expense reports.
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Given how seemingly every media outlet in the world drenches us with 24/7 celebrity updates, it's no wonder we envision the life of an actress to be oh-so-sweet. You know: Between shooting scenes, hang out on-set in a posh trailer. After "working" for a few hours, take a limo back to fancy Beverly Hills home, go out at night to party with Hollywood hotties and other celebs, head back home... and then do it all over again.
But for actress Amanda Tapping, such a lifestyle is truly the stuff of fiction. Apart from the fact that she lives and works in Vancouver, Canada -- some 1200 miles north of Hollywood -- you can forget the parties, the hotties, the limos and the leisure time. She's much too busy, and too goal-oriented, to bother with all that.
In fact, this "Queen of Sci-Fi" (so dubbed by the fans) has just two things on her agenda right now: family and work. And that short list consumes pretty much every moment of every day, whether or not she's actively shooting her show, because -- as you will find out -- Tapping has thoroughly earned her new Executive Producer title.
After 10 years and 200 episodes of Stargate SG-1, Tapping served one more year on Stargate Atlantis as Major Samantha Carter before leaving that universe to create another.
Stargate fans who tuned into her new TV series, Sanctuary, were surprised to see "their" Sam with dark hair, speaking with a British accent and going about her new duties with a wise, almost matronly, manner. (Guys, you're in luck: The new gal knows her automatic weapons, too.)
Although Sanctuary airs on the Sci-Fi channel, it's set on Earth, primarily in the modern day, with nary a means of interstellar travel in sight. Still, the program offers viewers a healthy helping of science with its fiction.
In the new series, Tapping plays Dr Helen Magnus, a 157-year-old woman from England's Victorian era who hardly ages due to... well, let's just call it a little college drug experimentation. She runs the titular Sanctuary -- a home for creatures great and small, legendary and supposedly mythical, some dangerous... and all freaky. (Seriously: The Loch Ness Monster and Harry Potter's house elf have nothin' on some of these beasties.)
These "abnormals" live among us regular humans, and are largely feared because they're misunderstood, à la Wicked. By housing the abnormals at the Sanctuary, Dr Magnus keeps them safe, stops them from harming the populace -- and, since they're there anyhow, carries out some research and cataloging.
One thing that truly sets the show apart are the visuals, which are magnificent both in style and in scope. This small-budget venture is able to create elaborately-detailed scenes and sweeping views because it shot against a green screen. In post-production, the background is replaced with realistic digital renderings of almost anything the writers and producers could imagine: catacombs under Rome, the middle of the Bermuda triangle, a plane crash on a snowy mountaintop, and the gothic architecture of the vast sanctuary itself.
We had the chance to talk one-on-one with Ms Tapping, and found out how, over the course of a decade, her career has grown from chasing spaceships and System Lords to include babies and balance sheets.
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I love Amanda Tapping as Samantha Carter on StarGate SG! and i really anjoy SG1 movie and i speankt to see Caronel Samantha Carter more on StarGate Atlantis
Neat and cool. Always looking forward to seeing and reading Amanda Tapping's work.
i love amanda tapping cause she i a good actor in stargate sg1
Great interview. Very entertaining. I liked your choice of questions, can't wait for part 2. I wouldn't mind seeing more about Amanda Tapping on your site. She is simply amazing.
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Amanda Tapping is awesome. She deserves more recognition than she gets. SHe deserves a Emmy for her amazing performance in "Requiem"...thank you for the article......
Wonderful. Amanda Tapping is wonderful. Such richness of kindness, wisdom, insight, empathy, insight, passion, commitment, humor, intelligence and enthusiasm. Thank you for the interview.
Thanks for the great interview.
Great interview. I loved Amanda Tapping as Sam Carter on Stargate and I'm really enjoying Helen on Sanctuary. I can't wait for the next part! :)


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Lighthouse restaurant reopens at new location in Knife River
The family who operated the Lighthouse on Homestead restaurant until it closed abruptly in July is back in business at a new location in Knife River.By: Candace Renalls, Duluth News Tribune
The family who operated the Lighthouse on Homestead restaurant until it closed abruptly in July is back in business at a new location in Knife River.
"We're very excited to be open," said Claire Pierson, who owns the restaurant with her two sisters and a niece.
Taking their menu, most of their staff and their nautical theme with them, they opened Tuesday in the former Emily's Eatery along Scenic Highway 61, about 20 miles northeast of downtown Duluth. The new restaurant overlooking the Knife River is called Lighthouse at Emily's.
"We knew we didn't want to be done," said Pierson's sister, Brita Aug. "We love the restaurant business."
While word had gotten out that they would reopen in the former Emily's Eatery, which closed last October, they didn't advertise their opening date.
"We just opened quietly," Pierson said. "We didn't say anything."
So much for a soft opening. Lunch was brisk as locals, tourists and well-wishers dropped in, experiencing the welcoming atmosphere that had built a loyal following at the other restaurant.
"This is wonderful," said Lighthouse regular Bob Mohs, gazing around at the familiar decor of fishing nets and lures, historical pictures and mounted faux fish on the walls. "I think this is going to be a fabulous location."
Mohs and his wife, Leslie, often ate at the Lighthouse on Homestead three miles away.
"We couldn't wait for them to reopen," he said.
With plenty of restaurant experience, Pierson and Aug and their sister, Lynne Compton, and Compton's daughter, Andrea Darsow, opened the lighthouse-shaped restaurant on Homestead Road four years ago. They had the restaurant built between Scenic Highway 61 and the expressway to Two Harbors. Meant to be a friendly neighborhood restaurant, they developed a loyal following.
According to Pierson and Aug, the construction had been expensive, and when the recession hurt business, they had difficulty making their bank payments. The bank worked with them. But when business improved, they couldn't make the higher payments demanded of them.
The bank took action, closing the restaurant on July 20, Pierson said.
"It was very abrupt; it was a surprise to us," she said. "It was a sad thing for the whole community."
"When they closed, everyone was devastated," Leslie Mohs said.
The Lighthouse owners then worked out an agreement with the owner of Emily's about leasing that space, Aug said.
Besides diners, neighboring businesses are happy the restaurant has reopened.
"We're extremely happy to have them here," said Pamela Matson, a co-owner of Great Lakes Candy Kitchen across the street. "We're ecstatic about it."
Already on Tuesday, the candy shop was getting customers who had eaten at the new restaurant.
"It's a perfect combination — people stopping there for lunch and here for a little candy," she said.
Unlike Emily's Eatery, the new restaurant, which includes a small bar, will be open year-round for lunch and dinner during the week but also for breakfast on the weekends.
Its menu of burgers, hot sandwiches, pasta and salads starts at about $7.50, while its walleye dinner is $19.95.
"It's has been a fabulous day," Aug said after the busy lunch crowd. "It's an excellent start to our new endeavor."
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Chapter 18
The first paragraph of this chapter repeats the memorable opening paragraph of Book One: we are back in the lovely Ixopo district, but now on the prosperous high farm of James Jarvis (already mentioned in Chapter 11). Jarvis climbs up to "the tops" on his land, partly to enjoy the view of the great Umzimkulu Valley, and worries about the drought, and about the problems of soil erosion and the inadequate farming methods employed by Africans. Then he sees policemen drive into the farm and begin walking up the slope towards him. The captain breaks to Jarvis the news of the death of his son Arthur, shot by an intruder that afternoon in his home. Jarvis is shocked, stunned. He accepts the police offer of an airplane trip to Johannesburg, and then, as the captain makes the necessary phone call, breaks the terrible news to his wife, whom we hear "crying and sobbing." Chapter 19 The senior Jarvises are welcomed and accommodated in Johannesburg by the Harrisons, the parents of Mary, Arthur's widow. Mary and her mother-in-law console each other in their grief. Once the formalities at the mortuary are concluded, Harrison senior and Jarvis talk sadly about Arthur. John Harrison, Mary's brother, admired Arthur intensely, but his father and Jarvis, white South Africans of the older generation, have never had much sympathy for or understanding of liberal attitudes towards black people. But Jarvis liked his son, and the two of them are impressed by the variety of people who have sent in messages of sympathy. Harrison speaks of the causes that Arthur espoused and the chances that he was prepared to take in pursuance of his beliefs. Jarvis is conscious that his son had traveled into territory that is unknown to him—though it may not be wholly unknown to his wife—and he feels rather challenged by this. He tells his wife that he wishes he had known his son more fully. He also cannot understand how this could have happened to someone like Arthur. The two embrace in their pain and sorrow. Chapter 20 His wife and daughter-in-law having returned to the Harrisons' house, James Jarvis sits alone in his son's study. He looks at Arthur's papers, among them many letters of invitation to meetings and gatherings of various kinds; letters of thanks, too. He looks at some of the books in his son's large collection: a whole bookcase full of books on Abraham Lincoln, and books on South African history, wildlife, religion, politics, criminology; and literary works. There are pictures too, one of Christ crucified, one of Lincoln, two of South African scenes. He finds an uncompleted essay that Arthur was writing, in which he distinguishes between what was permissible and what was not permissible in the actions of white people and governments. He suggests that it was all right to develop the country, but that it was never right to exploit human beings. In words reminiscent of those of Msimangu, he notes and regrets the disintegration of traditional tribal values, and insists that the ruling whites have a moral duty to devise an honest and fair solution to the social problem that has developed. Jarvis senior is interested and touched by all this. Deep in thought, he begins his walk home. Advertisement


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A strong typhoon with winds averaging 130 kilometres per hour smashed Yalong Bay Golf Club, the venue for the Euro250,000 Sanya Ladies Open, before the the tournament, which starts on Friday.
Trees, signage, the main VIP marquee and over 150 trees were downed across the course. This has given the course a new character. Two truck loads of coconuts and coconuts tree palms were cleared from the course.
Luckily for them, the ground staff led by course superintendent Shane Templeton carried out clearing works from dawn to dusk to bring the course back to its prime condition in time for the start of the Sanya Ladies Open before the players arrived.
"The whole course was like a huge rubbish bin. We had to work extra hours to get the course back to shape as the players have started their practice rounds this morning. By this evening the course will be back to normal - minus over 150 trees," Templeton said.
He added that the course was flooded and if it was not for the good drainage the flood waters would still lace the fairways and bunkers. "The bright sunshine and clear skies today are going to help dry up the course and I'm confident the players are really going to enjoy this week at Yalong Bay Golf Club," Templeton said.