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So last Saturday we had MHR Poll of the Week: Mid-Season Awards, and we got great results. This week we are going to announce the winners and post a few of the comments from each awards and then we will get onto this weeks poll. I got my Tux on and I'm ready to read the winner!
To see the full results click on the award to be taken to the poll article.
MHR Mid-Season Award for Worst Squad Goes to...
Quarterbacks! Who takes home 42% of the votes.
Runners Ups:
Coaching with 21%
Offensive line with 15%
A few thoughts from our voters:
QB's hands down
Coaching seems to be getting a lot of votes but if ST's are doing well and the defense has improved to a degree, then I don't get that. Fox inherited a mess and McCoy may be calling vanilla plays because that's all his players are capable of. We'll see how i feel at the end of the season.
Coaching IMO
Every team has had to struggle with the same short off season issues. Other new coaches are doing fine.
My biggest beef with them is that they refuse to make adjustments in game until it's way too late.
Not everyone was with the major players:
Went with WR's
I am probably in the minority, but I went with WR. Not getting open consistently, running the wrong routes, dropping catches (51% catch rate!), not getting two feet in on TD bombs against Lions, insignificant YAC, lack of. It plays. Disappointing. Of course part of my negativity on WR could go to front office for dealing B Lloyd of a 5th.
Without any regard to positional value...
How can anybody argue that there has been less value and production from anywhere else than the TE's? Remember the BS that McCoy said about opposing teams would actually have to cover our TE's this year???
Mid-Season Award for Best Squad Goes to...
Special Teams! Who takes home 43% of the vote.
Runner Ups:
Linebackers with 23% of the votes
Running backs with 18% of the votes
A few thoughts from our voters:
I had a hard time choosing between special teams and the RBs. This is probably the best rushing attack we have had in years, so I had to give way. But credit to Colquit, Prater, and Cosby, they have played well.
I voted for Special Teams as they have made some improvement
I think the LBer position will make us happy before the season is over.
Mid-Season Award for Least Valuable Player Goes to...
Elvis Dumervil! Who takes home 19% of the votes.
Runner Ups:
Tim Tebow with 16% of the votes
Kyle Orton with 15% of the votes
A few thoughts from our voters, and there was a lot of variety here:
Gotta go with Orton
9 Million under performing dollars sitting on the bench.
Part of my pick on the other polls were based on the amount of money and draft pick alloted to the groups. But this is an individual thing so Orton wins the prize for me.
Being an old lineman
I had to pick Beadles. Success on either side of the ball starts in the trenches. His poor play directly affects the entire play of the offense which has been the weakest unit on the team. I give Franklin a pass because he is a rookie learning the game, but he does get my second vote.
easy one... Joe Mays
not even close
I refuse to answer this question...
on the grounds that I will be incriminated or worse on this site. Let's just say he is currently the worst player at his position in th NFL. Go Gators……
And the Most Important Award of all, Most Valuable Player Goes to...
Von Miller! With 33% of the votes.
Runner Ups:
Willis McGahee with 30% of the votes
Britton Colquitt with 15% of the votes
A few thoughts from the voters:
I have to give Robert Ayers some love right now
He's playing good right now. He's not only setting the edge but getting after the QB. At the same time, I feel bad for him because he wasted two seasons being an OLB. If he was playing DE the whole time, he would be a stud by now. I'm happy to see him improve this year. Also I like the broncos pass rush with Ayers, Dumervil, and Miller. Now if the secondary can hold up for a few more seconds they'll get more sacks. Those three the broncos can build a defense around.
Also, my MVP right now is Decker.
Colquitt, sad but true that our punter has been our most valuable
weapon this season. Our O has sucked so badly that he has been relied upon to improve field position for the team all year and has delivered. Great combination of hang time and distance. I'm sure he has saved our D some yardage and perhaps a score or two. #2 on the list gotta go with Von… and once he learns how to set the edge and contain that inside run he will be the talk of the NFL…
I voted Von, but it is probably Champ. Without Champ back there we would be totally hosed.
Thanks again to everyone who voted!
Now Where Were We...
Oh yea this week's poll, I'll keep this one short and sweet and not needing much explanation. Other SB Nations sites have member awards ceremonies, giving out awards for Most Argumentative Member, Funniest, Best Writer and so on, would you like to see something like that here?


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Copious amounts of tiny market squid are invading Southern California coastal and island waters. Last week, crewmembers aboard the Native Sun on a twilight trip out of Long Beach Sportfishing netted a scoopful of the tiny mollusks to show passengers on board.
The squid, which were between one and two inches in length, were small enough to convince a crewman to swallow one whole—alive. (See attached video.)
Don Ashley from Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach thinks the abundance of squid means good fishing in the future. "With the cool water, one would expect that we will have another good market squid season," said Ashley. "There has been no commercial seiner pressure on this fishery as they met their quota early last year. All this means the food chain is working and with a little luck, the big ones will come out to eat the little ones."
The squid's arrival may also be good news for yellowtail fishing at Catalina Island, which produced some excellent yellowtail fishing for Captain Jeff Wiley on his private boat last weekend. Wiley was fishing with live squid and caught six of the hard-fighting jacks weighing up to 30 pounds out of nine hook-ups.
Captain Jeff Jones thinks this bodes well for the future. Jones thinks this may well signal the start of some great yellowtail action at Catalina Island.
"The report I got was that the guy left them biting 'wide open' only after running out of live squid," Jones said. "Fishing alone, he had double hook-ups, and nearly ended up with limits. Looking back in my logs, I had a 70 fish day (limits for six passengers and a crewmember) at Catalina in February 1998 while running the RailTime."
'Day at the Docks' heralds start of saltwater fishing season
The Port of San Diego's Day at the Docks celebration of sportfishing is Sunday. Many see the event as the start of the saltwater fishing season.
Anglers will see the latest fishing tackle presented by the industry's leading manufacturers, and lots of how-to seminars by expert fishermen will reveal secrets on how to catch more and bigger fish. Anglers can test their skills at casting contests held throughout the day. Sportfishing captains will showcase their vessels and be available to answer all of your questions about how you can book the trip of your dreams.
The event also features boat rides on the San Diego Bay, displays by marine artists and fishing tackle experts, great food, entertainment, open house aboard sportfishing boats, kid's fishing, contests, prizes and just plain fun.
Quick bites
- Rockfishing remained excellent as these bottom dwellers flourish in cooler waters. Fishing up and down the Southern California coast has been really good for a variety of the colorful and delicious bottom fish. Boats from Newport Beach, Long Beach, San Pedro, Redondo, Marina del Rey and Ports of Call have been catching near limits (10 rockfish per angler) on a regular basis.
- There has been some good surf fishing up and down the coast. Bob Osborne from Surfside caught a 12-pound halibut during a recent grunion run. Halibut like to come up in the shallows during grunion runs, making them more vulnerable to fishermen.
- Osborne and fellow surf fishing angler Tom Raftican put on a mini tournament last Saturday. Fishing was slower, but Raftican did manage to hook four fat barred perch on a plastic grub. He was outdone, however, by Philip Friedman, 21, with two yellowfin croaker. Friedman took home the Godzilla trophy and bragging rights for a year.
- The Toronado out of Pierpoint Landing in Long Beach is hosting a great Fishing with Phil Trip departing April 28 at 10 p.m. and heading to San Clemente Island. The trip will fish both surface and rockfish and will provide pro-staffers, lots of raffle prizes and a chance to star in the next Patch Fishing Video. Regularly $175, you can save $25 and go for $150 if you call or text 424-237-0250.
- The Native Sun had excellent sand bass fishing last Friday night on its twilight trip, catching more than 100 bass for 28 anglers. That was followed by a very slow Saturday night's fishing—go figure. The crew will be at it again the weekend with Friday and Saturday night adventures from 6:30 p.m. through midnight. The price is $42, and you can book by calling 562-432-8993.

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Fiesta Parade Floats houses a year-round marketing and public relations staff that have developed strong relationships with national and local broadcast media. Many outlets and reporters rely upon Fiesta to deliver inside and "behind the scenes" coverage of the Rose Parade each year. Fiesta consistently receives more media coverage every year than any other Rose Parade float builder.
The Pollack PR Marketing Group has more than 25 years in the business of public relations and marketing. The senior staff is "hands-on" and works closely with Fiesta to achieve consistent and widespread coverage of each of the floats. Having worked the Rose Parade on the client side for more than ten years, the agency has a keen understanding of brand perception in the parade and is especially equipped to partner with Fiesta clients to achieve branding and marketing objectives. The agency specializes in communicating brand messages of Fiesta's Rose Parade floats via local and national broadcast media before, leading up to, and during the Rose Parade.


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Good morning girls. Do you all know what a pizza
is? How about a family? So a family of 6, not including the dog, needs
the pizza cut six ways? Sure you know that! But suppose the kids, all 4
of them, are at the mall?
Now girls, you remember what these things are,
don't you? Why they're our friends, undifferentiated polynomials! Or are
they rational denominators? I can't remember myself! I'm sure you know
but you're having a teeny problem, aren't you. You can't remember fractions!
And who ares what they're called. All we want to do is to do the problems
so we can watch "Bay Watch"!
Now fractions are basically just pizzas. You'll
never forget that, will you! When you see a fraction, the word "pizza"
will pop into your head. Forever. The bottom part of the fraction is the
whole pizza. This one has 4 slices! The top part has only 3! Some pig ate
it! We have "three quarters" of a pizza. But suppose we get 3 more slices
for the top? Now we have more than a pizza, don't we? A pizza and a half.
Now pizzas like this are for small families. You could call them "Presbyterian Pizzas." How about this one? 8 pieces! You could call this a Catholic pizza! (Notice we don't use an enchilada instead of a pizza. That wouldn't be politically correct, would it girls!)
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Ted DiBiase defeats Michael McGillicutty
in approximately five minutes via pinfall
• Well, well, well. Look who hasn't been cut yet. My first thought upon seeing Ted and the "DiBiase Posse" graphic on the Trinatron was, "good for him". My second thought was, "who are they gonna job out to him in his comeback match?"
• Then I heard McGillicutty's music and said "damnit". Loud. I think I scared a cat or two. The McGillibuddies will not stand for this! rabblerabblerabble
• I think Mike is Ted from an evil parallel universe. All due respect to their heritage and abilities, they are about as bland-looking a pair as you can imagine. Except MM has a beard, so he's the bad guy.
• The tease some grappling, but McGillicutty goes dirty and kicks Ted in the midsection. He sets to pounding on him for a while, until DiBiase busts out a drop kick, dumps him over the top rope with a clothesline and launches a suicide dive.
• Mr Intensity gets the upper-hand by grabbing the apron and kicking Jr's leg. He then executes a much nicer drop kick and gets a two count off a backbreaker. But DiBiase battles out of a rest hold and hits a sitdown spinebuster for a near fall of his own. After kicking out McGillicutty's leg on a break a la his old man, Ted goes for Dream Street but Michael counters into a jawbreaker. But then the Posse leader hits his finisher anyway.
• Damnit.
Match Footage below via WWE.com's Official YouTube Channel:
Twenty or so minutes of the usual Raw stuff follows. I skip most of this, cause, wow, did that show stink. They replay the entire opening bit with John Cena, Vickie Guerrero and Ryback that announces the last man standing stipulation for their pay-per-view (PPV) match at Extreme Rules.
A video package version of Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman's "office invasion" and HHH's response comes after that.
Cody Rhodes defeats Justin Gabriel
in approximately nine minutes via pinfall
• Not sure about this "darewolf" moniker they're pushing for Gabriel. "The Capetown Werewolf" had a cool ring to it, even if it was a bit cumbersome and didn't make much sense. And the thing is - the part that didn't make sense? The part where they alluded to his having lycanthropy? Still doesn't make sense.
• They take a long time feeling each other out and attempting lock-ups. Justin eventually sweeps the leg and goes on the offensive a bit with kicks and elbows. A cool spot where Gabriel charges into the corner and jumps over a counter attempt, only for Cody to grab his legs and turn it into a stiff-sounding Alabama slam takes us to a break.
• The heel is in charge when we get back, and it stays that way for a while - only broken up by another innovative maneuver where the South African hits a Frankensteiner variant on Rhodes out of a handstand. Gabriel's offense looks better here than usual; he also gets in a nifty cartwheel shining wizard which allows him to land more kicks to the upper body and head before trying for a pin.
• Moonsault-mania! Cody steps under an attempted one by JG, and heads right back up the ropes to connect with his own from the top. Rhodes presses his advantage by going for the disaster kick, but the darewolf counters that into a powerbomb in yet another sweet spot. This match is quite good.
• After a little back and forth, the mustachioed one tries cross-Rhodes, but Gabriel rolls him up in a small package that gets two. But, with the help of a handful of Justin's ridiculous haircut, Cody hits his finisher and earns the victory.
Match Footage below via WWE.com's Official YouTube Channel:
A produced bit on the history of Ryback and Cena closes us out. I guess even they knew that the Kane v Ryback match sucked, since they break their usual mold of ending with the Raw main event. That's a smart call, but it doesn't help that this compilation includes a bunch of footage from the less-than-thrilling segment they already showed us in its entirety.
It's hard for me to recommend an episode where my boy Joe Hennig gets damn near squashed for no good reason. But I enjoyed the heck out of Rhodes - Gabriel, so let's grade this week's Superstars a C.
Am I being too generous - maybe because they aired clips that reminded me how bad they can be when the showed stuff from Monday night? Who's excited to see both the Legacy boys in action and victorious on the same show?
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Surya gets "Inspired" for High Point Market
March 14, 2013-- Furniture Today,
CALHOUN, Ga. - "Inspired" will be Surya's marketing campaign theme for the High Point Market, the home accessory and rug source has announced.
Surya said it will showcase the many ways inspiration fuels the home fashion industry and drives the creation of its wide range of products. Events, showroom merchandising and displays will be geared toward the theme.
"Inspiration plays into every aspect of what we do and how we work at Surya," said company President Satya Tiwari.
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Every five years, Congress addresses agriculture in a farm bill that covers everything from dairy to food stamps. But last year, Congress could not agree on the massive bill, so it left many in agriculture looking for answers.
Congressman Peter Welch, D-Vermont, who sat on the House Agriculture Committee spoke to dairy farmers Thursday at the Vermont Farm Show about what's next. Welch also spoke with our Anson Tebbetts. Watch the video for more.


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BLACKBURN with Darwen health chief Dr Pervez Muzaffar has backed a charity's campaign to encourage black and Asian residents to have a free health check.
One Voice, through the Baiter Sehat campaign, is planning to carry out health checks at mosques and community centres, in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Council.
The charity is concerned that less than 20per cent of the health checks in the borough last year were carried out on black and Asian residents.
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Dr Muzaffar, who sits on the board of Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group, said: "I welcome the campaign run by One Voice to increase awareness about health checks in the community.
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I was thinking 300 a month on booze sounded like a lot but I go through a bottle of bourbon in maybe 3 weeks, and I usually spend about $40US on one, and then I have about 6 beers a week, but most of those I get at 7-11...but I can guess with the drinks I buy the missus to get me up to 150 a month I guess.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Some Birthday Wishes
7 comments:
- Deb Neerman said...
This is just wonderful, Tina!!! Love the color combo, the stamps, the Office Accoutrement image ... everything!
Is that SU stamp still available, dormant, or retired?!? LOL, you need a score card to keep it all straight, huh?!?
Great card, Kiddo!
~Hugs, Deb
- August 24, 2008 at 12:59 AM
- Allison said...
Super job Tina...love the color mix and use of that set (I never see it!).
- August 24, 2008 at 12:52 PM
- Lynn said...
Excellent card! I really like how you paired it with the Cornish note pad back ground stamp!
Its sad that your not close with your mom, I hope the two of you can work things out!
- August 24, 2008 at 8:13 PM
- AlienAnessa said...
Now this is a beyond awesome card, TH!! Love, love, love this so much!! I so adore how you did the entire thing!!! You know I'm pulling for you with your mom. Let me know your strategies, I "might" use them!!!
- August 25, 2008 at 1:07 AM
- Lauren said...
Great card. This layout is awesome.
- August 25, 2008 at 11:25 AM
- malieta said...
What a stunning card and I love your color combo!
Either your mom or aunt will love this beautiful card.
I don't know you that well Tina, but I truly hope that you and your mom repair your relationship. Just take it one day at a time:)
BTW...your mom "bd" and mine are very close. Mine is Sept.15th!!! Us Virgos appear to be mean, but deep down we are very loveable people:)
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- Lauren (mytime) said...
Oh I LOVE the mini calendar. Such an adorable card. Thanks for playing along.
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My quick answer is yes of course I do. The man has been a workhorse and a franchise player who never turned his back on the Bills even at the worst of times, basically his entire career. He's never been in the spotlight for the wrong reasons, and despite a few injuries, has continued to produce season after season. In my opinion, he's been the best defensive end the Bills have seen since Bruce Smith and I'm certain I'm not the only one who thinks that.
However, considering he would need to make a positional switch after a great career at DE, would need to do so in a new system, has missed all team activities to this point and so has not yet begun the difficult task of learning his new position, does it really make sense to have him come back and give him the reps at a position other team members have been working at for months now?
Open question, do you want to see Schobel back on the field at training camp? If no, why not? If yes, at what point does it no longer make sense to keep him on the roster?
To start off, I want to see him at training camp because I think he'd have enough time to learn OLB well enough to be a threat on the field and would be able to adjust throughout preseason. That said, he'd only have 2 weeks before the first preseason game and I think you have to move along if he does not show up for that first preseason game.
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On the day when Syracuse legend Carmelo Anthony had his jersey number retired, the Orange were unable to overcome Otto Porter's 33 points, with the Hoyas prevailing 57-46. The 6'8 sophomore hit 12-of-19 from the field, including 5-of-10 from downtown to highlight a career day. This was the last time that Syracuse would host Georgetown as members of the Big East, as the Orange are moving to the ACC at the conclusion of this season.
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The abuse comes from teams that either have a super thin farm or teams that ship out talent via trade every year. It takes away potential depth from teams that they may need throughout an entire season...(Mainly bulpen help from injury or flat out busts).
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Reviews by Gump:
3.43/5 rDev +12.1%
James Page White Ox Wheat Ale
Average dark yellow and nice cloudiness.
Apricot and peach aroma, with a mild peppery herb essence. Nice and light. Wheat malt.
Easy on the palate. Clean and crisp, peppery aftertaste.
A little watery, but very drinkable.
Pours cloudy blonde with medium size bubbles in the white frothy head.
Sweet, fruity, light orange, light citrus.
Highly drinkable with great carbonation
Flavors are subtle.
Great beer that would pair with just about anything in the spring/summer months.
Incredible value. Local. No change in grade.
10-16-2011 04:08:00 | More by Gump
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2.55/5 rDev -16.7%
12oz bottle into a fluted tasting glass.
Hazy yellow, white head
Nose is faint. Mustiness covering some apple and orange citrus, and a lactic touch and subtle corinander.
Taste is weak and thin, not inspiring in the slightest.
This one might put the fire out on some hot wings, but other than that...
09-18-2009 15:13:15 | More by brownbeer
2.95/5 rDev -3.6%
Almost definitely a Wit beer, the spices are quite apparent in the aroma, and the color matches in a hazy greenish pale yellow manner. Which takes me to the beer, the appearance is as above, with a flat dishwater head of 1/8 of an inch and leaving scant laces. Aroma is fairly spicey, bits of orange and candied ginger, suggestions of sandalwood. And there is the best part of this beer, the aroma. The flavor is dish rag cottony with fading senses of chalkiness and a little amount of citrus tang, albeit pretty dang sweet and fading to non-descript. By the end, there is not a lot left in the flavor and the mouthfeel registers as more light and poorly carbonated than much of anything else. This one didn't ring too many bells for me.
10-10-2005 00:33:59 | More by ADR
New Mexico
3.03/5 rDev -1%
A really small white head quickly dissipates into a very thin lacing above a clear pale straw golden colored beer.
A light lemony citrus aroma that has a distinct light hops to it.
Light lemony citrus with a slight hops bitterness coming through in a light taste.
A very light bitter tint on a dry aftertaste with this light bodied beer.
A really light tasting beer without the yukky aftertaste of beers like Bud Light, etc.
11-13-2012 21:34:29 | More by LXIXME
3.45/5 rDev +12.7%
A simple but tasty wheat. A bit more than the average pale wheat with a bit of citrus and belgian flavor. Very easy drinking and refreshing. No, there isnt much in the neighborhood of flavor, but its pleasant and sweet and goes down easy. Possible crossover beer or a Blue Moon replacement.
06-11-2006 05:58:38 | More by tempest
3.15/5 rDev +2.9%
Pours a hazy, pale yellow with a large white head that had good retention. Heavy lacing is left on the glass. The smell consists of a light lemon aroma and wheat malt. The flavor is straight on American Wheat Ale. Very boring. Just a hint of citrus is detected besides the malt. No signs of anything coming from the yeast. The body is light and the carbonation is good for the style. With so many better wheat ales and hefe's out there today, this one can easily be bypassed.
01-03-2009 21:16:20 | More by morimech
4/5 rDev +30.7%
09-27-2013 12:23:02 | More by aswaller
4.25/5 rDev +38.9%
01-27-2013 04:45:21 | More by matjack85
2.65/5 rDev -13.4%
Light in color close to white and fluorescent green more than gold. Light prickle and sparkling head. Neutral malt nose. Sour notes to the attack but a clean flavor. The beer gives a poor first impression on the palate. Effervescent type of mouthfeel and a clean finish as far as the flavor is concerned but there is some residual "alka-seltzer" like bubbliness. I would call this a C-.
08-09-2008 19:56:25 | More by Ragingbull
3.65/5 rDev +19.3%
Not a great beer, but not a bad one either. I found its appearance to be too similar to that of a straw yellow macro. And the taste, while quite delightfully smooth, had no backbone and felt a bit watered down. Drinks very easy, almost too easy. On a hot day, worth a try.
05-14-2007 02:50:18 | More by supercolter
2.5/5 rDev -18.3%
Light, cloudy yellow color with a large fizzy white head. Head dwindles, carbonation seems low after the initial rush. Smell is semi lemony but more of a wheat adjunct type aroma. Taste begins adjunct like sweet. Dries out in the middle and a weird metallic type flavor comes. Goes quickly as well. Some off fruit flavors. Too sweet, weird. Finishes citric with a touch of lemon. I really just didn't enjoy this beer.
09-07-2006 00:31:03 | More by granger10
2.85/5 rDev -6.9%
Appearance: Almost clear light gold body, big white hea when poured aggresively. Visible carbonation.
Smell: Grainy, with light wheat and banana evident. Maybe a little metallic.
Taste: A little bland, the flavors are somewhat muted. Metallic and dry, still boring.
Mouthfeel: Smooth, with only a little carbonation present.
Drinkablility: Nothing terrible about this beer, it's just a little uninspired.
04-11-2006 14:09:11 | More by TastyTaste
2.8/5 rDev -8.5%
Into a pint glass, pours a pale clear yellow with a little initial head, then none, little lacing. Aroma is thin, citrus, slight wheatiness in there, bland. Taste is likewise, citrus and light wheat malting with medium carbonation and body. Very eh, one and done.
12-18-2006 03:38:05 | More by objectivemonkey
3.03/5 rDev -1%
James Page White Ox Wheat Ale pours a big stiff head over a slightly cloudy
yellow brew. Carbonation is active, the nose is wheat and a whiff of citus. The
flavor is slightly sweet wheat and not a whole lot of anything else- maybe a note
of lemon. Mouthfeel is velvety smooth but light. There is a bit of lemon in the after
taste. Pretty much a standard American Wheat Ale. In this case the brewer elected
to use a neutral American Ale yeast strain and it shows- there's none of the bananna,
clove, or bubblegum notes you can get with a Belgian or German yeast strain. I guess
I can understand the rationale- a neutral flavor for American tastes- but there are just so
damn many beers on the market just like this one. James Page, of course, is contract
brewed at the Steven's Point Brewery, who brew a wheat beer of their own. It would be
interesting to have done a comparison, but chances are it's pretty similar. This beer is
refreshing enough, it just doesn't really distinguish itself.
07-22-2008 18:07:41 | More by shadow1961
3.55/5 rDev +16%
Pours a cloudy, maize color. 1/6 inch head of a white color. Slight retention and slight lacing. Smells of wheat, yeast, slight pale hop, and a hint of clove. Fits the style of an American Pale Wheat Ale. Mouth feel is smooth and crisp with an average carobnation level. Tastes of wheat, yeast, slight hop, slight citrus, and slight spice. Overall, a good body and blend.
12-31-2009 20:48:05 | More by Tone
3.63/5 rDev +18.6%
Part of a sampler pack from James Page. 12 oz bottle into a pint glass
Acloudy, pale straw like yellow with bright white fluffy 2 inch head that quickly fizzles to about 1/8 inch, leave full lacing around the glass
Sas the name says, wheat, mild malts, a little grapefruit and lemons scents as well, a slight bit of pepper as well.
Tmalt and citrus flavors are dominate, I taste a little vanilla also. Taste is pleasant and balanced
Mcrispy and clean, but a little too carbonated
Doverall, a very drinkable beer. Could have several more, but, to me, would be better to enjoy during the hot summer months.
02-10-2006 01:20:56 | More by hanco005
2.83/5 rDev -7.5%
Poureed into a chilled pint glass.
It's a cloudy, straw-yellow with a fluffy white head.
She smells of cereal and wheat malt with a touch of spice (orange?cloves?).
Tastes like that too with light and sweet hue that is overall fairly dry.
Wouldn't get this one on purpose again, but if someone offered either this or a glass of wine to me, only then would I go for this brew again, but it is pretty banal and boring.
07-28-2009 22:31:58 | More by ThickestHead
2.63/5 rDev -14.1%
A - Poured out a somewhat cloudy, very bubbly, straw yellow color with a two-finger, white head with a good deal of tiny bubbles. Little to no lacing.
S - It smelled of citrus, wheat and some yeast. Not much else.
T - It tasted of lemon and wheat. Somewhat sweet with no bitterness or any hop presence.
M - This one is pretty thin and a touch watery. A very light bodied brew.
D - This is a work in progress. It was dull and bland.
04-30-2010 21:32:09 | More by zeff80
3.6/5 rDev +17.6%
Aroma shows a nice light touch of fruitiness that is slightly sweet. A bit of pale malt flattens it out. Very light and soft.
1/2 inch head soon fizzles out leaving a smear of bubbles surrounded by a ring. Cloudy pale yellow gold.
Nice wheat flavor is primary. Some yeast towards the finish. Touch of sweetness up front. Subtle dryness. Actually more complex than I anticipated. As it warms I like how the flavors of the barley malt blend with the wheat.
Actually fairly heavy feel that's lightened some by the abundant carbonation.
Based on the reviews I thought this might be bad. It's not For what it is it is certainly a serviceable beer that could hit the spot on a hot summer day.
08-20-2007 17:40:39 | More by garymuchow
2.6/5 rDev -15%
Pours a very very clear yellow with a medium white head. Lacing sticks to the glass like glue. So thick, it doesn't even look like lacing. Active bubbling throughout half the drinking session.
Aroma started out a little stale, with a hint of skunk. After a little while, I was unable to pick up any aroma. Which, in this particular case, was a good thing.
Flavor is a little lacking. For a wheat beer, I'd expect some haze and some... wheat flavor. A very light ale, just a hint of thickness, and a small amount of citrus sweetness.
Mouthful started out a little light and fizzy. I either got used to it, or it settled down. Since the bubbling on the side ended half way through, I'm going to guess this beer just needs some airing due to bottling. It wasn't quite as crisp as I would have expected. I suppose the 'wheat' part of the beer may have thickened it up just a bit.
Drinkability was fine. But so is tap water. Even though I may have complained about this beer, there was nothing particularly unpleasant about it. Just lacking in so many areas, and quite boring.
04-25-2007 16:26:37 | More by terrabyte
2.5/5 rDev -18.3%
01-17-2012 17:17:33 | More by zenwatts
2.5/5 rDev -18.3%
Saw this for the first time in KC, so I decided to pick up a bottle in a mix a six. Poured a 12oz bottle into my Dogfish Head snifter. This beer pours a **slightly** hazy straw with a meager 2 inch head that turned into nothing. No lacing, no retention. Kind of ugly. The aroma is, well, watery with a slight bit of wheat malt and just a meager hint of banana. The flavor is mostly the same. Just really average. Nothing particularly overwhelming or underwhelming. Just middle of the road. No hops are discernible in the profile. The mouthfeel is light and finish with just a hint of sweetness. This maybe the most mediocre beer I've ever had. Definitely would be in the top 10.
05-07-2010 01:28:56 | More by hwwty4
3.33/5 rDev +8.8%
Looks like a cloudy BUD and has a head that is gone in a split second. Somewhat sharp and spicy aroma. Same for the flavor-crisp and clean with a snap. Slight hop bite and a mellow spiciness to it. Somewhat citrusy. Average body. Very macro-ish and thin. Rather average overall. Dont know what this would cost for a six pack but I think I would prefer a BUD or other macro at the price.
07-26-2007 22:55:14 | More by lackenhauser
New Jersey
2.73/5 rDev -10.8%
Pours a very light yellow with a matching light head. Color reminded me of many wits I have seen. Citrus predominated which is not hard to do in this very light brew. Some sweetness in the middle. This was not unpleasent just not a whole lot going on. Drink this one cold on a hot summer day. Lawnmower beer. Thanks to JeffKrenner for the bottle.
07-30-2006 11:11:10 | More by thaichile
3.5/5 rDev +14.4%
08-18-2012 13:20:29 | More by olafphysics
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Journalists Use Novels to Reveal What Reporting Doesn't Say
'My pitch: An experienced journalist grows discontented with journalism's limitations and turns to fiction as a more accurate way to reflect the reality of life in the Middle East.'
By Matt Beynon Rees
Promised Virgins: A Novel of Jihad
Jeffrey Fleishman
Arcade Publishing, Inc. 253 Pages.
Jay Morgan, the central character of Jeffrey Fleishman's thought provoking "novel of Jihad," carries an undeveloped roll of film shot by his young photographer wife in the moments before she was killed in Beirut. Morgan lifts her wounded body to safety, but she dies anyway. It's a fitting image on which to build Morgan's deep bitterness and disillusion about journalism as he covers the war in Kosovo. In these days of cyberjournalism, idiotic reader "talkbacks" and nonsensical newsroom cutbacks, the only thing apparently more useless to the media industry than an undeveloped film or a dead photographer is a living foreign correspondent.
The story of "Promised Virgins" revolves around Morgan's trek through the mountains as he interviews Serbs, Albanians and CIA operatives on the hunt for a newly arrived jihadi who has brought Islamic fundamentalism to the otherwise nationalistic Muslims of Kosovo. In truth, the book is about a foreign correspondent's uncomfortable personal connections with the society he covers and his realization that they're the only things keeping him from despair at his ever-shabbier trade. The author mainly hangs that feeling on the unconsummated sexual relationship Morgan shares with his translator, Alija.
When Morgan, who narrates the novel in first person, describes Alija, we get the book's finest moments. It seems possible from the vigor and poetry of those passages that there was someone like this for Fleishman, who reported from the Balkans and is now Cairo correspondent for the Los Angeles Times—someone local who lit him up creatively by the sheer foreignness of her being. It's the kind of connection that's beyond journalism to capture and, no doubt, one of the reasons he wanted to write this novel in the first place. By contrast the scenes of Morgan with another journalist interviewing sources are numbing and emotionally empty.
When the first of my Palestinian crime novels, "The Collaborator of Bethlehem," was published in 2007, I approached most of the American correspondents in Jerusalem to ask them to write about the book. My pitch: An experienced journalist grows discontented with journalism's limitations and turns to fiction as a more accurate way to reflect the reality of life in the Middle East. No correspondent argued with me; most interviewed me with sympathy, swapping stories of the way their own publications failed to make use of the depth of their knowledge. The truth is that a foreign correspondent who spends any time with the people he covers, who doesn't just interview them and go off to drink with the other hacks at the hotel bar, will uncover realities that don't fit the black and white formula of journalism. These snippets of reporting—these glimpses of gritty reality—are the ones likely to be woven into a fictional account, given the layers of emotional depth they explore.
The duality of Fleishman's novel is a perfect illustration of this. Alija's personal story and her response to it is a compelling mystery that Morgan unravels gradually, almost by touch, as they sleep together. In contrast, Morgan spends the rest of the book on the trail of the jihadi in the mountains, which never seems like the big story he thinks it is and, in the end, turns out to be a bit of a dud. But Fleishman toys with us, seeming to promise that there'll be a journalistic payoff for Morgan, when in fact this story will retreat into insignificance beside the wrenching climax of his relationship with Alija. What you learn from the journalistic preference for promiscuous interviewing, Fleishman seems to say, isn't a patch on the insights gained in a single, deep relationship with a local.
The question that faces many foreign correspondents is whether to take their collection of exotic rugs, local robes, and war stories back to where they came from, exhibiting them like trophies in their suburban homes while commuting to the op-ed desk, or to remain with the people they've covered and learned about. That doesn't necessarily mean staying in one location, as I've done—13 years in Jerusalem and counting. It can also involve a commitment to delve into the emotions that people who are no longer strangers unfold for you and to recount your responses. Usually, this will mean a turn to fiction. Journalistic memoirs require a personal, emotional narrative that few correspondents can supply, since most of them spent their time, like Fleishman's Morgan, interviewing people, filing and drinking, all rather dull activities when recounted in print. Rather it's what they heard and saw, not what they did, that has often burrowed its way inside of foreign correspondents and, in time, this tugs them into fiction.
The human connection with local people is, I think, what saves foreign correspondents from the worst effects of the dreadful things they see. (Most foreign correspondents are after all really war correspondents.) During the drafting of my second Palestinian novel, "A Grave in Gaza," I often cried as I wrote. At the time I thought, "Man, I'm good. I can even write myself into tears." Only when I had finished did I realize that my weeping was the result of the traumas I had expelled onto the page. Once I understood this, I noticed that the tears and quick rages and nightmares about burned, dismembered bodies, ceased. That would not have happened if I hadn't been able to connect on the page my feelings to the emotions of the Palestinians. The characters had to be real enough—I had to know the people on whom they were based well enough—for them to carry the weight of my own intense feelings of horror and shock.
I can't say the same thing for journalism. As a reporter, almost the only time I cried over my copy was after I saw the edit.
Matt Beynon Rees is the author of "The Samaritan's Secret," the third in his series of Palestinian crime novels. "The Collaborator of Bethlehem," which introduced his lead character, Omar Yussef, won the Crime Writers Association's John Creasey New Blood Dagger that is given to the author of a first novel. He was bureau chief for Time magazine in Jerusalem. He wrote about his own turn to fiction in the Summer 2007 issue of Nieman Reports, www.niemanreports.org.
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