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Pipe Crew Part II-The whole chapter
Fiction, Boy / Boy, Incest, Masturbation, Teen Female/Boy, Young
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Gender: Male Age: Secret Location: N/A
Posted: 2012-10-02
I inadvertently left off the end of the chapter last night. Here is the full version.
The second week of August brought changes to our daily routine. The beans were being picked, which meant there were fewer acres to water. The corn was getting close, so Mister broke up the crew. Sandy, Rusty, Spud and I kept moving pipe. The Baldwins and Tater stayed with the harvest crews, either shuttling bean trucks, driving the bean picker or getting the corn picker and silage chopper ready for harvest. At first I thought driving the Oliver Bean Picker looked like fun, then I watched it go. It moved so slow you had no trouble catching it with a slow walk. Picking green beans is tedious work, even for a machine like an Oliver Bean Picker. While the rest of us pipe movers still had fun moving pipe, whichever of the other boys got stuck on the picker had our pity. By the end of August the beans were in and we started picking corn. This ended up being my favorite part of that first summer.
Picking sweet corn went in two stages. Loeschen Farms Sweet Corn has a local reputation and being the sweetest and the prettiest. While other farms just picked every ear and sent them to the stores to be sold, we hand picked only the best ears and boxed them in the field instead of throwing them into the back of a truck to be bruised when they crashed into each other.
"Pick the ones with the darkest hair," instructed Sandy, showing me which ears she meant. "Dark hair means extra sweetness." She was referring to the corn silk. I think. She might have been talking about something else, come to think about it. "Peel off the outer layers like this," she broke off about three inches of stalk from the base of the ear, drawing off the dingy outer husks, leaving a beautiful green ear with dark hair protruding. She put the ear in a wooden flat and started working down the row. When she had half a shirt full, she turned around and started back, picking ears on the other side of the row she was in. When she got back, she had a shirt full of corn and it just about filled the flat. What she didn't notice is that as she filled her t-shirt, it pulled the neck down until I could see the white of her bra strap where it met the top of her cup. Instant boner. As long as Sandy didn't talk, she was easy to think about. It's when she started barking orders that she could kill a teenage hard-on. When she bent over to drop her corn, I could see right down her shirt. As she stood up, I quickly looked away.
For the rest of the afternoon, I angled to be nearby whenever she dropped a load of corn into a flat. I was trying to get a glimpse of those beautiful globes. I had to really hustle to keep up with her and keep the timing just right so I could be bending over just as she was. Sometimes it worked in my favor, sometimes a corn stalk would get in the way. When we got done picking a couple rows, the truck would get started and creep down a specially cut row. As it passed we would hustle to pick up the flats and put them on the truck. Rusty drove the flat bed, Sandy stayed on the back stacking the flats. Spud and I worked the rows, seeking the filled flats of corn to hoist up. As Sandy bent over to grab the flats, I kept trying to sneak peeks at her tits. When we put the last flats on, we tied them down with cargo rope and then started clearing the sweat from our bodies. Sandy pulled the bottom of her shirt up and then twisted the side of her shirt, which as still relatively clean, up to mop her face. She gave Spud and I a full on view of the bottom of her breasts in their white bra cups. Sandy was good looking all right, to a couple of hormonal teenage boys.
"Get your fill yet Pauly?" Sandy asked with her hands full of t-shirt and her breast covered with my gawking stare. "There just tits. Ain't you ever seen a girls tits before? Good God you are as green as grass." I just turned red and looked away. I had seen a girls tits before, if you counted my little sister's flat chest or my mom's nice breasts. I had snuck a peek or two down her house dress over the summer.
"I wasn't looking at nothin'," I lied half-heartedly. I could hardly wait for that night, when I would rub my erection on my sisters butt and imagine it was Sandy's tits. Sandy just smiled.
"Nothin'? Maybe you'll see for yourself what 'Nothin'' looks like up close. How would you like that?" she taunted. I would like it fine, just fine, I thought.
"You ain't hand enough to show your tits to me," I taunted back. "Don't let the age fool ya, I got more than enough to make you happy. Make you crazy is more like it." I don't know what came over me. I guess I thought I'd make a comment like Jack Baldwin and take the beating that came with it.
"Yeah," said Sandy in a breath whisper. "Maybe. If'n your first piece of ass didn't kill you first." The way she said it, and the way her eyes glazed over, like she was really thinking about it kind of scared me. I had matured a lot in the last two months, but not enough to take on a full grown woman like Sandy. I just turned around and walked to the other end of the field where the crew truck waited. Rusty took the sweet corn truck back to the house, where one of the older boys would take it to town. Spud climbed into the cab with Sandy and I hopped in back and took off my shirt, eager for the cool breeze to wash some heat off of me. Every time I looked into the cab, Sandy was looking at me in the rearview mirror. It started to worry me. What had I started?
That night I eased into the bath to wash off the last of the dirt from the day. Even though I wasn't sore any more, even after a long hard day, I enjoyed the relaxing effects of a hot bath. Every so often Becka would come in and keep me company. She would sit on the stool with the lid down and pull her knees up under her chin, pointing her tiny slit at me. I would sometimes reach over and tickle her legs, grazing her pussy through her shorts, but I always stopped short of anything that caused me to sport a never-fade erection. I couldn't walk through the house showing how much my little sister got to me. I had eaten so much fried chicken for dinner that I was feeling full and lazy in the tub.
"Hey Pauly, look at this!" She stood up and lowered her shorts. I could see the tiniest thatch of black curly hairs at the apex of her triangle. She really was becoming a woman. "Aren't they neat? I have nineteen now!" My cute little sister counted her newly grown pubic hairs. At least they were long enough for me to see with the naked eye now. My own groin had begun to fill in nicely. As had my shoulders and pectorals. My leg muscles had a nice definition and I had begun thinking that maybe I wasn't a lost cause.
"I guess we're growing up. Pretty soon you won't be able to snuggle with me. I heard mom and dad talking about moving to a bigger house so we could have separate rooms. You need your privacy." I could tell she was seriously worried I was telling the truth. The truth was, I wanted some privacy of my own. I had discovered that stroking my hard shaft with my hand felt really good and I wanted a chance to give it a go.
"I don't ever want my own room. I like sharing with you." She started to tear up.
"Don't cry Becka. I like sharing a room with you too. Maybe we can't afford to move. Maybe if you ask mom and dad, they won't move." I was only suggesting it as something to try in the future, but Becka leaped at the chance. She shot out of the bathroom like her tail was lit and ran into the living room and launched into our father's lap.
"Daddy, you won't make us move again, will you? I like it here. So does Pauly. And we like sharing a room. Please don't make us move." She snuggled up against him and of course he just hugged her and assured her we wouldn't move soon, but we might move in the future. But he promised not to think about moving without a family meeting. She kissed him and sauntered back to the bathroom where I had climbed out of the tub and was busy drying off. "We don't have to move. Daddy said so." She was proud and happy with her power over our father. She had that same power over me.
I pulled my shorts on and nothing else. I walked out to the living room where my dad was reading a book by Walt Whitman and my mother was scanning the newspaper. I sat down on the couch next to my mom and started reading the sections of paper she had already finished. We had a television, but it was an ancient black and white and we didn't have an antenna. It really wasn't worth the effort to try and get those infernal rabbit ears to gather enough signal to give us both sound and picture, so we didn't try on most night. We just sat around and read, or played a card game. Then we went to bed and started over bright and early the next morning. A little before nine I gave my mom a kiss on the cheek and said good night to everyone. My dad didn't say anything, but I could tell he was still proud of me. Becka stayed curled up in his lap, to give the pretense of trying to stay up. She usually got to stay up for about ten minutes after I did, just to give me time to get to sleep before she got there.
Since I knew I might have ten minutes, I peeled the covers off of my bed and lay back on the cool sheet. In the few feet of hallway from the living room to the bedroom, my dick had already started to engorge in anticipation. I pushed my shorts down my legs and started stroking my cock. This would be my first real attempt at masturbation where I would try to finish with a bang. I thought about Sandy's tits and what they must look and feel like. I could feel the climax building, and just as I was about to finish, I heard small footsteps in the hall. The door opened on me pulling my shorts up over my erection. Becka jumped into her bed and lay back like she was going to go to sleep. Damn! Double damn! I wasn't even going to get a chance to rub her slit with my boner until I shot.
"What were you doing when I came in?" she asked from across the room. "Where you rubbing yourself with your hand?"
"Yeah I was."
"I do that sometimes, too," she confessed. "But not when you are awake. I put my fingers down there and rub and then I start to shake and it feels really good. Not as good as when you rub it with your thing, but really good anyway. Do you know what?"
"I think about you when I do it. I think about you putting your thing inside me like dad puts his privates into mom. She really likes it."
"What do you know about dad's privates and where he puts them?"
"Can't you hear them at night?" she asked. "Sometimes I sneak down the hall like I am going to the bathroom and I listen at their door. Sometimes they leave it open a crack and I peek inside. When dad puts his big thing into mom, she really likes it."
Her simple description of our parents fucking was enough for me to throw caution and good sense to the wind. I pushed my shorts back down and started stroking my cock again.
"Are you doing it again?" she asked. "I am going to come closer so I can see." She crossed the room and stood by my bed.
"Lift up your shirt, Becka. Let me see your chest."
"There ain't much to see," she warned, but she lifted her shirt anyway. Her tiny nipples were hard like little red candies. She was wrong though, she had the tiniest swell of mounds on her chest now.
"Show me your pussy too." She lowered her pajama pants and showed me that tiny dark patch.
"Do you want to touch me again?" I asked, hoping she would say yes. It would only be the second time she'd ever grabbed my hard cock. She didn't respond she just leaned forward and grasped my throbbing cock. I used my closest hand to reach over and cup her mons pubis in return. She stroked me and I rubbed her. As I built up to my climax I pressed my finger deeper between her pussy lips and I could feel the opening to her tiny vagina yield. I slipped the tip of my middle finger into her cunt and she started to flood my hand with juices. That was enough for me. My own cum splashed all over my stomach. Ropes shot up my chest. I felt hot gobs hit my own face. I didn't care. This was the best ending to my day ever.
I pulled my hand out of my sisters legs and licked the cunny juices from my fingers. She sat down on the edge of the bed next to me and scooped up a little of my spunk and touched it to the tip of her tongue. Then she got another and did the same. I was curious and I did the same. I found I enjoyed the taste of my own cum as well as I liked my sisters. When we were done cleaning me up, I pulled my sister across my body until she was lying next to me. Then I pushed her pajamas down lower and buried my face into her slit. I enjoyed licking ever bit of her juice off of her. So much so, I kept right on licking when she flooded again. As her hips bucked and squirmed, I pushed my tongue deep as I could into her cunt. I even licked her tiny pucker by mistake, but it was coated in her juices so instead of being musty, it tasted like pussy, so I licked it again. She jumped at the sensation but didn't say to stop. My cock was hard again before I had my fill of her juices. I started to wank it myself but she got the hint and took over for me. Just before I came I looked down and could see her studying my dick as she stroked it. I blasted her full in the face and she jumped back, startled. Some even went up her nose. She didn't like that. But I kept shooting across her face, her neck, her tiny boobs. Finished at last, we cleaned up again and each went to sleep in our own beds.
The next day I must have acted a little differently. In the yard waiting for our days orders, even the Baldwins noticed something different about me.
"If I didn't know better," observed Jack. "I'd bet our boy here got himself laid last night." They all laughed at his joke. I just smiled. I might not have had full on sex, but I'd gotten a girl to make me cum twice. It still counted even if it was my younger sister. They couldn't rib me into giving a damn about their taunts today. I was fuck-proofed.
All day long I was paired with Sandy. On the few fields that still had water running, Spud and Rusty would take one side, Sandy and I would take the other. We only had four hundred acres of pasture and about the same amount of field corn to move. The pasture was dead easy. The field corn was much harder. With sweet corn the yield is in the ears. With field corn, which gets chopped to make silage to feed cattle all winter, the point is to get as much stalk and leaf as possible. It could grow so tall that the area between the rows would stay dark and shady. It took two people on each joint of pipe to half push, half toss it over into the next row. It was hard damn work.
As we finished our last line of pipe for the day, we walked back together to the main line to start the water. The truck was parked at the end of the main and it was closer to get to this way. Sandy bent over the valve and started the water flowing. I watched her ass and thought of what a full grown woman might look like naked.
"Thinking about what I would look like naked again?" she asked without turning. How she knew escaped me at the time, but I decided what the hell, I'll go for it. I was feeling pretty randy and I didn't care if this much older girl knew it.
"Yeah. I think about it a lot," I replied to her back, not taking my eyes from her ass. "When you ain't yelling and screaming, you are damn pretty."
"You think so?" she asked laughing. "What makes you an expert?"
"I got eyes, don't I?"
"What else you got?" she challenged.
"This." I don't know what came over me, but I unbuttoned the fly of my Levi's and let my hard cock stick straight out. I immediately thought I had made a huge mistake. She turned her head and my cock was less than a foot from her face. It was the moment of truth.
"Jack told me you were carrying a Happy Stick. I wanted to see for myself. You are going to make the girls pretty happy with that. Do you know what to do with it yet?" I shook my head no, not willing to admit how much I had defiled my little sister. She reached out with a rough dirty hand and gave it a rough tug. "Come closer dummy!" I shuffled closer and she buried the entire length down her throat. WOW! WOW! WOW! WOWOWOWOWOwoOWOWOWOWOW! It remains the most amazing thing I had ever felt. She squeezed my balls and that was all it took. I blasted off so hard my knees got weak and my asshole quivered. I had cum in a woman's mouth! Now my dick was so sensitive that any friction at all caused me to jump like I was shocked.
"Let's see if you know how to return the favor." She had me button up my jeans and we headed to the edge of the field. She opened the tailgate on the pickup and unbuttoned her own jeans and pushed them down past her knees. She sat on the tailgate and spread her knees as far as she could and I didn't need any encouragement. I dove into her hairy pussy like a man seeking his last meal. I wasn't skilled, but I was vigorous and eager. It didn't take long before she was bucking and jamming her pelvis against my face so hard I was afraid it would bruise. Finally she pushed my head away and panted for breath.
"You sure know how to use that tongue Pauly. You are definitely going to make the girls crazy. That was so good, I might even let you fuck me next time." My balls tightened at the prospect.
"Why not now?" I asked, eager to continue.
"Your first time should be a little more special than on the tailgate of an old pipe truck at the edge of a cornfield. Besides, you ain't but thirteen, even if you are the size of a grown man and hung like a stud pony." She hopped down from the tailgate and pulled her panties and jeans back up.
"Can I ask you one favor?" I said before the moment was completely over. "Can I see your breasts? Please?"
She laughed. "Since you asked so nice." She raised her shirt and her bra in one smooth motion. Her breasts flopped out, conspicuously white against the rest of her tan. Her nipples were dark and erect and the size of silver dollars.
"Those are the nicest tits I have ever seen!" I admitted.
"Seen a lot have you?"
I shook my head no, but I never took my eyes off of them. "Can I touch them?"
"Yeah, but be gentle. They are really sensitive after I cum. Your hands are rough so don't go mashing them around like old fruit."
I stroked them gently with just my fingertips, lightly grazing each hard nipple and carefully measuring the heft of each. I don't know when I'd get to see a grown woman's bare breasts again and I wanted to remember every detail as much as I could.
"That's enough Pauly," she said finally as she worked her bra back down over her mounds. "Any more of that and I am going to change my mind about fucking you silly right here." She leaned forward and gave me a quick kiss on the lips. I liked everything about it except the flavor of Day's Work chewing tobacco. I made a rule to myself never to kiss a girl that chewed again.
When we picked up Spud and Rusty, they climbed in back and we drove off and finished the day. It was all a blur to me. I remember staring at Sandy and thinking about her hairy pussy and how it would feel swallowing up my hard cock. It took a dirt clod to the head to break me from my reverie.
"Hey, that hurt!" I complained as I rubbed my head.
"Come on!" shouted Rusty from thirty yards away. "You heard her. Let's get this pipe moved and head for the house." I really hadn't heard her. I was too busy thinking about her to hear her. I was disappointed she didn't want to move any more pipe with me, but I got out. I didn't want Rusty or Spud to know I'd nearly made it with Sandy.
Back at the yard, the other boys had started a pick-up football game. They were done for the day and waiting on Rusty and I so they could give us a ride home. I could see that a crew from Sherman's and a crew from Handell's was also there. They had picked teams already so when we got there, the game was underway.
"We get Rusty," shouted Harold Handell, one of the two team captains.
"That's fine, we'll take Pauly," replied Jack. I was shocked. I figured I'd be picked last, being the youngest.
"Then we get Sandy."
"That's fine. We got Spud. Come on guys we are down by a touchdown."
All of the boys played high school football except me. I'd played eighth grade football, but I wasn't a star or even much of a player. But that was last fall when I was twenty pound lighter and three inches shorter. All that work over the summer had given me speed and strength I had never had before. We played until sundown, and I think we won, but I don't recall. I do remember that I caught several passes, took a couple of hard licks, and just jumped up, grinned and kept playing. I even intercepted a pass when Jack rushed Harold and caused him to throw it too high for his receiver and into my waiting arms. I ran it back across the yard and scored my only touchdown of the game. The other boys were too tired to catch me and they only gave half-hearted chase because I easily outran them. Even Rusty.
I only had one more sexual adventure that summer. Sure I'd snuggle with Becka every night. I thought about asking her to suck my dick like Sandy had, but I never did. My last sexual adventure came a couple nights before school started. I was spending the night at Rusty's as a reward for being such a hard worker all summer without complaining like a whiny teen boy.
Rusty and I decided to sleep in his barn. We made a fort out of hay and climbed in. All we were wearing was our gym shorts to stay cool in the Indian summer heat. We got to talking about girls and what we'd like to do to them if we had a chance. Then he asked if I would do Sandy, and I admitted I would. He accused me of having a crush on her, which I denied and then we started jostling and tickling each other. The tickling turned to wrestling and we were laughing and having a great time. Even though I was three years younger than Rusty, I realized I was just a shade taller and almost as strong. When he started working really hard to pin me and make me admit that I had already done it with Sandy, I fought back as hard. We started to sweat and breathe heavily. He put his full weight on me and I realized his cock was hard. That made my cock hard in response.
I'd never fantasized about being with another guy that I could recall. But I was hard and in need of release and I could tell that Rusty was too. That made it seem right. We were good friends and he wasn't an ugly guy. It made me feel good that he was getting hard thinking about me. Suddenly I was fantasizing about being with a guy.
He was trying to turn me on my stomach and press his cock against my ass. I twisted around until he was straddling my waist and then I pressed my boner against his. He froze. I froze. I didn't know what I wanted next, but I could feel he was ready to continue. I could feel my throbbing desire rubbing against him. Would it make us gay if we just helped each other get some kind of relied? I decided I didn't care.
"What are you gonna do with that thing Rusty?" I asked, thrusting up to press my cock against his.
"I don't know Pauly. I was thinking about making you suck it."
"You don't have to MAKE me, Rusty. You only have to ask." I felt his cock twitch against mine. "Let me see it." He stood up, straddling me and lowered his shorts. His cock stood straight out, all of seven rigid inches and well proportioned. It bounced in the air to the tune of his heartbeat. I sat up and quickly put his dick into my mouth as if I had been sucking dicks my entire life. Contrary to what I might have guessed, I enjoyed the feeling that it gave me to have his warm length filling my mouth. It even tasted good. I tried to do what Sandy had done for me. I squeezed his balls and he rewarded me with a torrent of ejaculate into my throat. I coughed and swallowed until it was gone. I could tell by the look on his face that this was his first blowjob.
"Let me do you now," he ordered with heavy breath as he dropped to his knees. I popped tall and he pulled my shorts down for me. "You really do have a big cock. For a kid." He licked it and kissed it and then slowly sucked just the head in. As his head bobbed, he went a little deeper and deeper until he couldn't take any more. Then he started twisting his fist around my shaft and that was enough for me to bathe his tonsils with my spunk. He swallowed like a pro. He pulled off while my cock was most sensitive. When it stopped twitching and began to shrink, he put it back in his mouth and slowly bobbed up and down on it, reviving it. I got the sneaky suspicion that mine wasn't the first cock he'd sucked.
"Ready for what comes next?" he asked. I didn't know how to answer. What else was there? When his finger probed my ass and began to intrude on my sphincter, I figured it out.
"Are you meaning to fuck me Rusty?" He bobbed his head up and down. "I ain't never done anything like that before. Are you sure it's ok? " He nodded again with my cock in his mouth. "Then I guess we can try." He shoved his entire finger deep into my ass with one swift move. I jumped, but it only took a few seconds of him pumping it in and out for it to feel really nice. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.
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anonymous reader
2013-08-23 00:23:36
Girls that are into talking dirty and more Kik.me @ Noblessee or email @ firstname.lastname@example.com 17 and under and any race welcome but looking for black boys and girls.
anonymous reader
2013-04-14 17:24:34
Shit, the gay part just destroyed the whole story
anonymous reader
2013-03-16 11:55:53
Defo not the gay part has ruined a good story . Stick with brother sister and don't rush the growing up of little sister . All males prefer bald hairless pussies
anonymous reader
2012-10-25 11:13:29
The story is awesome, keep up the good work. Fuck the people that say the boy / boy part messed up the story because it didn't. He's just experimenting like any normal sexual person. I'm a straight guy and I had some guy /guy sexual moments with a male cousin when we were kids
anonymous reader
2012-10-12 10:05:18
Outstanding story thus far. Screw what anyone says about the "gay shit", boys will be boys and that shit happens whether they want to own up to it or not.
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Fix 1864 Spezial - Old Dominion Brewing Company
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Reviews by Florida9:
2.63/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Ordered this One at a Greek restaurant listing it as "Greek beer," but in reality it's brewed inthe states and tastes like every other American Adjunct lager. Clear gold color. Moderate white colored head. Minimal lacing. Aroma is pleasantly sweet, corny, with a hint of grassy hops. Taste is simplistic with lots of sweet stewed corn, grainy malts, and the finish of sugar water. Thin body, medium carbonation, mild bitterness. Overall a simplistic, sweet, light beer that I hope to never have again.
Serving type: bottle
07-01-2012 23:28:21 | More by Florida9
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2.11/5 rDev -24.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Fix 1864 Spezial has a medium, white head and a clear, yellow, clear, bubbly appearance, with lots of streaming bubbles and no lacing. The aroma is of rather rank, cheap, sweet grain, and the flavor is similar, with grain husk and off-tasting sweetness. Mouthfeel is light and watery, and Fix 1864 Spezial finishes semi-dry and mostly unpleasant, but one can drink it. Overall, this is another cheap, scam-type beer that alleges to be something that it is not. One doubts that the real Fix of Greece tastes anything like this bum. At best, this is low average.
Serving type: bottle
05-14-2013 14:14:17 | More by RonaldTheriot
1.73/5 rDev -38.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1
I bought this beer because it was advertised as being 'from Greece' at Total Wine.. Only to find it's actually considered to be from the US on BA... Oh well.
Pours a light gold color with a sliver of a white head. Minimal carbonation and lacing on my snifter glass. The nose is skunk, grain, and weak malt. Utterly disgusting. Taste is slightly better, but nothing to write home about. Fizzy grain is the main taste, very watered down. Feel is light, fizzy, undercarbonated, and fairly flat. Overall, not a good choice for anyone at anytime.
Serving type: bottle
01-21-2012 23:18:46 | More by jayhawk73
2.73/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Not to be confused with the Fix helles lager from Greece. This one is just an American adjunct lager from Dover, Delaware. 12oz brown bottle with no freshness date.
The beer pours a clear, light gold color, but fails to make more than a thin rim of white head that dissipates instantly and leaves no lacing, so can't give much for appearance points.
Slightly sweet nose. Other than that it's pretty clean and inoffensive - which is another way to say it's bland.
Taste is pretty much standard macro lager with perhaps a touch of green apple flavor. It also takes on a mineral water flavor as it warms. Not too bad when it's ice cold.
Light and under carbonated mouthfeel.
Haven't tasted the original Fix from Greece yet, so can't compare it. This one's nothing special but will do in a "fix".
Serving type: bottle
01-07-2012 10:50:24 | More by matjack85
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3/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Small white head falls into a thin but decent lacing atop a clear golden colored beer.
A slight bready malt mixed with a light citrus aroma, quite a lot going on in a subdued light adjunct beer smell.
Taste is light bitter /sour hops mixed with a slight bready malt, kind of mellow but in a good way.
Not much aftertaste, maybe a tad citrus and less dryness.
This isn't nothing to run out and buy if you like rich hops or malts in your beers, but if you are a Coors or Bud fan you'll like this, since it seems to be what they were aiming for but they definitely fell short.
Serving type: bottle
07-30-2011 23:41:38 | More by LXIXME
2.68/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Another Wilkes-Barre retro offering, eh? I had a Rheingold last night, so lets see how different this one is. Pour is clear, light gold in color with a small white head.
Nose is grainy with a whiff of skunk. Smells pretty much like a combo of Adjunct Lager and Euro Lager. Maybe akin to pouring a half Schlitz and half Heineken. Not impressive.
Taste is light green apple, corn grist and grainy malt. Modest hopping results in a flash of bitterness on the finish and overall it has a Euro Lager feel to it more than an American Adjunct Lager. I really dont think this tastes much different from the Rheingold I had last night, talk about re-packaging! Pretty bad beer, not worth anyone's time or money here.
Serving type: bottle
07-23-2011 19:42:18 | More by twiggamortis420
2.65/5 rDev -5.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
a: Very slightly hazy, yellow-gold. Short lived white head, leaves minor lacing.
s: Like a standard adjunct lager, but with a little more breadiness and some unusual, but not unpleasant spicy smell.
t: Again like a standard macro lager, but with a little more heft, and some floral breadiness, and a sort of metallic spicy aftertaste.
m: Light, fair carbonation, average.
d: Interesting for a little while, and not a bad beer for the category, but little reason to want more than one.
Serving type: bottle
01-13-2011 21:32:35 | More by deadliest
2.78/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Appearance: Aggressive pour yielded an amber color with a small, fizzy white head.
Smell: Some sweet caramel and citrus hops.
Taste: Seems like that sweet caramel was actually a nutty flavor, some citrus hops on the finish. Not very good.
Mouthfeel: Very thin, good amount of carbonation.
Drinkability: Eh, it goes down. Definitely not something I would look for.
Serving type: bottle
09-15-2010 05:48:54 | More by darkmartin
2.63/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Spotted a few dusty bottles on the shelf at a local store and figured it was worth a shot for $1.50. Didnt know it was retired til I looked it up here. No dates on the bottle. Oh well, here goes nothing.
Bottle to shaker glass.
A- Hazy gold, one finger white head that disappeared pretty quick. No lacing. Very active carbination.
S- Nothing special but hints of what I can only describe as rubbing alcohol on sheet metal.
T- Pretty much the same as the smell with a little splash of citrus.
M- Thin, watery body. Carbination was present the whole time.
D- I wont be picking up the other ones the next time I'm there.
Serving type: bottle
06-26-2009 11:26:40 | More by tatoodkelt
3.25/5 rDev +15.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
not bad at all. tried one at a recent greek festival in B-more. POured out a pale amberish yellow with a decent 1 inche head that was failry fizzy and dissipated rapidly. NO real lace to speak of. aroma was just plain jane, nothing amazing. taste was also average slight malt and slight hop with hints of floral/citrus tastes. very clean and crisp and quite refreshing on a hot day as it was. I would definitely drink this before BMC it had more body and flavor to it and had a nice refreshign crispness to it that tingled the tongue. Not great and pretty much average as a whole but I found it quite enjoyable to drink
Serving type: bottle
06-13-2005 12:21:00 | More by kegerator
South Carolina
3.18/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
The original Fix brewery burned down a while back, so I was curious as to who made this and how it would taste. Some to find out Old Dominion brews it now, and they are good brewers, so that peaked my interest as well.
This was a downright strange brew at first. It had a very wierd malty/metallic/fruity taste to it, but got a little bit better as the beer warmed. The metallic taste was still there, but the floral bouquet of fruits, flowers, and malt got a bit more pungent. This was also accompanied by a very slight hop taste. Overall, this wasn't a bad beer at all. I wasn't really sure what to expect, since most beers from this area are kind of dull and boring. I was pleasantly suprised by this one.
Serving type: bottle
07-05-2004 01:09:55 | More by JISurfer
2.85/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Proudly served at a Greek restaurant in Columbus, you have to look pretty closely at the bottle to realize it is actually brewed in the USA, and it is billed as the "official beer of Greece" or some such. The label says it is an "Amber Ale" but it really is a Lager. Golden/amber color with a medium thin white head. Fizzy with little lacing. Aroma is lightly hoppy and lightly malty. Somewhat light-bodied and mildly malty under a low level of hops and citrus. Not a beer I would seek out but goes okay with a gyro platter.
Serving type: bottle
07-29-2003 14:03:33 | More by Dogbrick
Fix 1864 Spezial from Old Dominion Brewing Company
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This study will determine if NXY-059 will reduce functional disability from an acute stroke. The study is designed to look at both overall recovery and recovery of motor function, for example muscle strength and coordination.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Cerebral Stroke Ischemic Attack, Transient |
Drug: NXY-059 |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double-Blind Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | SAINT I (Stroke - Acute Ischemic - NXY Treatment) A Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled, Parallel Group, Multicenter, Phase IIb/III Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous NXY-059 in Acute Ischemic Stroke. |
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Estimated Enrollment: | 1700 |
Study Start Date: | June 2003 |
Study Completion Date: | February 2005 |
Primary Completion Date: | February 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
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- Acute ischemic stroke with limb weakness, onset of symptoms within 6 hours
- Full functional independence prior to the present stroke
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unconsciousness
- Subjects who are unlikely to complete the infusion of investigational product and/or are unlikely to undergo active medical management during that period due to a severe clinical condition
- Severe illness with life expectancy less than 6 months
- Known severe kidney disorder
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- Pregnant or breast-feeding
- Treatment with acetazolamide and methotrexate is not permitted during the infusion
- Participation in a previous clinical study within 30 days
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00119626
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Study Director: | AstraZeneca NXY-059 Medical Science Director, MD | AstraZeneca |
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00119626 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | SA-NXY-0006, 0006, SAINT I |
Study First Received: | July 6, 2005 |
Last Updated: | November 10, 2010 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by AstraZeneca:
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ischemic Attack, Transient Ischemia Stroke Cerebral Infarction Brain Ischemia Cerebrovascular Disorders Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases |
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Loose Micro-USB port!
Hi everyone, I have a problem with my Nexus 7. Over the last few weeks, the charging port has become loose/faulty. To get it to charge now, I have to apply a light bit of downwards pressure (when the face is up) to get it to charge. This is a pain because now when I charge, I have to put weight on the cable to connect it. Also, I think this is related, I'm having trouble connecting to my computer. Even when it shows it's charging, it won't connect as a USB device anymore and might come up with an error.
Does anyone else have these problems and do they have a fix?
BTW, I can feel a bit of play with my port but it doesn't look particularly bent or out of shape...
Sent from my Nexus 7 :-) - 11-23-2012, 04:43 AM #2
Re: Loose Micro-USB port!
I had that problem when I accidentally knocked the N7 down from my nightstand. I realized it wasn't the port but the cable itself when I used another USB cable. Hopefully it could be on the cable end and not the N7.
Sent from a tablet on a crappy OS, using an app that I purchased from an app store that appends this signature below my post to make me look superior in social status to everyone else. - 11-23-2012, 08:44 PM Thread Author #3
- 11-26-2012, 09:09 PM Thread Author #4
Re: Loose Micro-USB port!
Anyone else?
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Re: Loose Micro-USB port!
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- 11-27-2012, 02:45 PM Thread Author #7
Re: Loose Micro-USB port!
Have you popped the rear cover and looked at it yet? Could just be a loose screw has let the connector work loose.
btw, in checking for loose screws, I like to try backing (unscrewing) the screw to see if it's loose, not tighten...
Also the pic is with the speaker module (3 screws) removed... - 01-18-2013, 11:31 PM Thread Author #11
Re: Loose Micro-USB port!
Thanks for the help. Funnily enough, when I took it apart, the actual USB port didn't seem loose. This made me suspect the USB cable and when I tried my friends cable, it seemed to be normal. I'm confused though because my cable doesn't seem loose either.
I think I'll try a new charging cable. Do any of you know where to get one?
Tom :-)
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Re: Loose Micro-USB port!
try anamax or other from this list -- i got 2 from anamax and they both work fine, higher quality than the Asus supplied cable too...
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The cable that came with my N7 32gig came apart at the device end. The part you grip slid right of the connector. I used some superglue to fix it.
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I'm not happy, exactly, to see that other people are having the same issue - but I am glad to see a teardown link. We've tried every micro-usb charger in the house on our Nexus 7 since yesterday and nada.
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Loose is right! By the time I sent mine in for RMA the torque needed to just get a blink connection was almost at a level to damage the device. However don't depend on ASUS repair to find it any time soon My first RMA they sent back in just over a week! I was super happy... til I opened and tried the unit which hadn't even been looked at! A call to ASUS confirmed there had been a "mix up" and they had done a revolving door on the unit. Didn't cost more than gas to re-ship as they gave me a fedex auth for the return return included taped to the unit my explanation that the unit had a loose micro USB connector , that was done on 1/31/13 ASUS signed for the unit on 02/04/13 and still has the unit 02/20/13, conversation with ASUS online chat support last night a Daniel there told me that thus far the tech has been unable to find a fault with the unit. which is what the status of the unit has been showing on the RMA checker since the 6th when they updated it's status online. Now if ASUS still has a tech working on this unit after all this time... take my advice and sell your ASUS Stock! Complete insanity that the Nexus 7 which costs ASUS $152 to produce and has already cost them one Fedex shipment, is according to ASUS still costing ASUS Tech time each day for over 2 weeks???? Unit was shipped to Texas which has a Minimum wage of $7.25.....
Just to be safe however when I purchased the unit from J&R I also bought their 2 year support which I called before contacting ASUS, last night I called J&R Sales to find out if they could handle this situation and received a call from J&R Support that they would be in contact with ASUS and give me a call back today. I'm not expecting this to take much longer, as I mentioned to J&R that if the unit was that messed up I would be happy with a store credit against one of the $319 IPad Mini's *LOL* - 03-19-2013, 01:28 AM #22
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I have the same problem, and I know it's not the cable, I have tried a lot of cables and I have came to the conclusion that it's something in the mini USB port inside the tablet.
I won't take the risk to open it and check the screws by myself, but I plan to take it to warranty to see if the fix it.
Moreover, I bought 2 Nexus 7, one for me and one for my girlfriend, and they both were fine for the first month, and they started to develop the issue at the same time, so I guess it has to do with the material of the mini USB port itself... like it's not hard enough and after the first month of use, when you have probably used the device while it's plugged-in causing small movements to the cable which apply small forces to the walls of the port, making it to start distorting slowly over time and become loose... I cannot see any gross bends or distortion in it, and neither me nor my girlfriend have dropped the unit, but I feel it's loose, when right after the unboxing, it was not...
Had any of you find a way to repair this?
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I have also experienced the loose port issue. I suspect my kid also knocked it to the floor while it was charging. Tried two stock cables, and other cables, none of them worked. The only way to charge my device is by TIGHTLY back bending the cable underneath the unit, and even then, the charge would occasionally be lost. I would have to monitor it for several minutes without touching it. What a PITA Asus! An IT colleague checked the port and said it looked bent. So, using a screwdriver from an eyeglass repair kit, I *very gently* and *incrementally* worked the port tab to be positioned in the center of the port. I was also very careful about not bending port case/sides as I did this, FYI. After each manipulation, I tried the cable. Once I got it centered again, it would still not charge. BUT! I jiggled the cable side to side a little and voila. Charging like a champ. I may need to do a little more tweaking as certain cables I have are still a little loose, but at least I have one now that has a relatively snug fit and is successfully charging. This was easy to do, I suggest it to anyone having this issue.
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Mine stopped charging today--
I thought it was loose cord--was manipulating it in place to get the charger to connect and now it won't do it at all.
It is NOT the cord, because I have switched three cords out and my phone charges with the same cords.
I need to fix this before I get to zero--what can I do?
Matt - 03-28-2013, 06:15 PM #25
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Topside, the islands boast an interesting cultural heritage. The native Chumash tribe occupied them for millennia, navigating through the Santa Barbara Channel and subsisting off the seafood that it provided them.
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The Explorer is a bit more expensive (a weekend rate of $110, which includes the night's stay, three dives, unlimited air fills, breakfast, lunch and drinks), but I am still under budget. Total spent so far: $225.
However, conditions are still not perfect, and the fog and choppy current send us back to Anacapa. I pair up with a twosome, one of whom is an instructor. His navigational assistance is a welcome addition during my first two dives, while we make our way through the rocky reef structures. We peer into cracks and crevices hiding lobsters, octopuses, moray eels and dozens of species of nudibranchs. On dive three, garlands of hydrocoral wave in the current, and huge abalone cling to the rocks. I look, in vain, for the giant black sea bass said to inhabit these waters. Instead, I see vermillion rockfish, several lingcod and schools of large sheephead, who pay me little notice.
The best part of the trip--aside from the fact that I didn't overspend my goal--is discovering how much variety these islands offer for a manageable price. I'd hoped to visit Santa Cruz Island, which is located about 20 miles from the mainland, but conditions did not permit. Santa Cruz is a good spot to observe the migrating gray whales that visit the area between December and March; blue whales also make an occasional appearance on this perpetually changing marine stage. And now that I know what awaits in these waters, there's no doubt in my mind: I'll be back soon.
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The two-year pre-physician assistant curriculum is designed to accommodate 20 students per cohort. Students are interviewed in depth by representatives of the Physician Assistant Program as part of the college admission process and are approved as physician assistant majors at that time. If openings arise in the freshman or sophomore class, well-qualified students may be allowed to enter the pre-physician assistant curriculum only after interviews and approvals by the Physician Assistant Program.
After two full academic years, during which the student must complete all the prerequisite course requirements for the Physician Assistant Program, as well as the designated portion of the general education requirements, the student generally enters the Physician Assistant Program, where s/he must successfully complete three years of professional course work: one year of didactic instruction; one year of clinical experience; and one year of graduate-level didactic, clinical, and research work.
The student finishing the Pre-Physician Assistant Curriculum applies for continuation into the professional Physician Assistant Program at the end of the sophomore fall semester. (Students entering as PA majors must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0 or higher to continue as PA majors.) Those who have achieved a cumulative index of 3.2 or higher as well as an index of 3.0 or higher in the biological and physical sciences will be interviewed for continuation into the three-year Physician Assistant Program. Students confirmed for admission to the Physician Assistant Program must maintain these indices to commence the Physician Assistant Program.