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hi, im 24 years old, been lifting with low reps, heavy wieght training each muscle once a week. ive been lifting this way for about 3.5 - 4 years. right now im benching 310.
for the last week ive been getting interested in powerlifting. ive been reading up as much as i can in this forum, checking out all the websites that you guys have been saying have good info and have been learning alot of stuff!!!!!
the main reason for the switch from what i have been doing to a more powerlifting type is because i want to be as strong as an ox. however, i have a couple questions. i did check out the 9 week start up powerlifting program on the efs website and plan to start out with that.
here are my newbie questions.
right now im 5 '11' 230 pds, i want a lot of strength (wich is why im switching to powerlifting), but am i going to lose any of my size that ive worked hard to get? honest answer please.
what kind of diet do powerlifters eat. im guessing they just eat anything they can find, but that is a newbie guess. right now i do a high protien (350 g a day) diet. how is this going to change?
i see that there is no direct bicep work, since it is not needed in bench, dead, squat. did any of you find your biceps getting smaller as you switch to powerlifter program.
thats all for now. please help me out if you can, i appreciate all the help i can get.
i used to do westside before switching to a fitness sort of deal. And honestly you will not lose any size, if anything you will gain size, when i was on westside i actually gained 4inches on my chest in 4months. Your biceps will not lag they may even grow more because of the weight you will be using and by no means will they get smaller....diet wise, powerlifters should still want to eat like a bodybuilder....5-6meals a day, protein up the ying yang etc...if anything i would say eat like a bodybuilder on a clean bulk...eat clean but w/ more in size of portions....IMO....but it also depends on if you are going to compete?, and at what weight class?....i know t-nation.com has some good articles on how powerlifters or strength athletes in general should eat..
Probably not.Originally Posted by bigmalone
A lot of powerlifters eat crap. Smart ones are a little more careful about it. I eat crap most of time but I watch my diet closer to competitions.
Mine didn't but I gained a lot of weight since starting PLing. I would think that with heavy DLing and benching, your arm won't exactly wither away, but if you have large bis and you want to maintain them, you might need to add a few sets of bicep work here and there.
I eat pretty much whatever I want but I try to stay within 5 lbs of my weightclass so i try not over do it.
If you're still doing back work, which you definitely should be doing, there's no need to worry about your bi's getting smaller. If anything they'll grow.
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thanks for all the help guys, i appreciate it.
another question that came to mind
do powerlifters do cardio?
Theres no reason not to
Some do. Many don't.
As long as you are doing so much cardio that it's cutting into your recovery and strength gains, it's a good idea.


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The Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association, which represents most of the 2,500-plus breweries operating in the United States, defines a craft brewery as "small, traditional, and independent." The association has employed the word "crafty" to describe corporate aliases such as Blue Moon Brewing and Anheuser-Busch's Shock Top Brewing, which (the group contends) can make consumers think those beers come from small, locally owned bricks-and-mortar breweries.
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It has been a smoldering issue, and the magazine Consumer Reports might have thrown more gasoline on the fire when it awarded its CR Best Buy stamp of approval to Shock Top Wheat IPA in a tasting of "craft" beers that appeared in its August issue.
In fairness, not all of the specialty beers flowing out of large breweries' tanks attempt to hide their origins. This week, Anheuser-Busch released its second annual Project 12, a variety 12-pack of three experimental lagers fermented with the Budweiser yeast. The packages and labels carry the Bud logo, and the beers take their names from the Zip codes of the plants where they're produced.
One of the three is Batch 23185, a bourbon-and-vanilla lager from the company's brewery in Williamburg, Va. Senior brew master Daniel Westmoreland created the recipe, aging the tawny lager on barrel staves from a Virginia distillery and sacks of Madagascar vanilla beans. He first brewed the beer in 2012 and upped the flavor this time around in response to customer comments.
Could Batch 23185 become part of the company's regular product line? An amber lager from last year's Project 12 assortment was rechristened Budweiser Black Crown and promoted to year-round status. "That would be the ultimate honor for a brew master," says Westmoreland, but he cautions that his recipe is labor-intensive and, needing one oak stave per barrel of beer, would require a large and steady stream of used distiller's wood.
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What a difference a year makes. By far the biggest story of the Internet in the last twelve months is the stunning reversal of Google (ticker: GOOG), which has gone from dog to darling.
A year ago at this time the shares were down 2% for the year, in no small part because investors were fixated on the prospect that the soon-to-be-public Facebook (FB) would steal Google's lunch, becoming the gateway to everything on the Internet. Then came Facebook's disastrous IPO in May, and people remembered that the wildest aspirations of any company, Internet or otherwise, are always something of a fantasy.
As the market warmed to the fact that Google's search business was not going away, and as analysts and traders began to believe in revenue prospects for its YouTube business, including paid ads in videos, they gradually forgot about Facebook's threat, and the change of mood was borne out: Google is up 10.7% so far this year, and 24% in the trailing 12 months, following a slew of brokerage upgrades. Facebook, meanwhile, which is down 28% from its IPO price of $38, cannot seem to do anything right.
OVERALL, THOUGH, THE GENERAL picture of the Internet one quarter into the year is of rising optimism, as the big online players offer, once again, better growth prospects than can be found in the overall tech landscape.
The stocks are up about 26% so far this year, on average, based on a basket of twelve of the larger names that I use, which, though incomplete and unscientific, nevertheless is a decent proxy for the group, I think.
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That's a motley assortment, to be sure: LinkedIn is a mish-mash of social networking and corporate software, very different from a publisher such as AOL. But it gives an idea of growth, with an average projected rise in revenue this year of 19%.
Yahoo's rise of 17% is in part a consequence of optimism about its new chief executive, Marissa Mayer, who has restored hope the moribund search portal can revive itself. Search-related revenue, which rose 14% in the December quarter, showed the Street that even a seeming has-been can see some decent growth given the increasing shift of advertisers to online as a medium.
The Internet stocks' return beats the 6% return of the Nasdaq this year, and certainly tops every sector of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, including the health-care names, which are up almost 16%, on average.
I'm leaving aside for the moment some of the smaller outfits—such as ReachLocal (RLOC), a proprietor of local online listings for services such as plumbers and caterers, with a $417 million market cap—to focus for the moment on the majors.
AS YOU'D EXPECT FROM PAST encounters with Internet names, they have preposterous valuations, on average. There's Amazon.com's 180 multiple of this year's expected earnings per share on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis; or LinkedIn's price/earnings ratio of 127 times.
The behind-the-scenes story to all of these outfits is that they struggle to "monetize," in Internet jargon, what traffic they bring in the door.
Because the actual payoff is always highly speculative, Wall Street spends a lot of time pondering strange bragging rights that may or may not yield profits. Facebook, for example, has the lion's share of total minutes spent on the Internet, at 15% in February, strictly among U.S.-based users, according to data provided by research firm comScore SCOR +0.06% comScore Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $36.21 +0.02 +0.06% Aug. 1, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 226,647 AFTER HOURS $36.21 0.00 % Aug. 1, 2014 5:27 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8,455 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $1.31 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $249,925 06/25/14 Want a World Cup Retweet? Say ... 06/03/14 Apple Maintains U.S. Smartphon... 05/09/14 CFO Moves: Merck KGaA, Watts W... More quote details and news » (SCOR) and data collected by JPMorgan's Doug Anmuth.
Facebook's 114 billion minutes of use, what Anmuth terms "engagement," dwarf its next-closest rival, Instagram, which, you'll recall, Facebook bought for $1 billion last year. Far, far behind is Twitter, which had 5.3 billion minutes last month.
The point of Anmuth's excercise was to quell concerns that people are moving away from Facebook.
Investment banker and former Rolling Stone magazine publisher Porter Bibb was on CNBC last week promoting that very idea. Said Bibb, who tends to sound like a futurist more than a banker, kids in England aren't using Facebook. They're all on a chat program you've never heard of, called Kik, which has roughly 40 million users.
Kik, along with Twitter and social-networking programs such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, may be occupying some young people's time. But Anmuth's point is that Facebook is still the 800-pound-gorilla of wasting time online. None of which is to say that it's worth a forward P/E of 48.
In the last few weeks, Rich Greenfield of the boutique research house BTIG has released a scathing set of anecdotes about ads that he noticed in his personal "newsfeed," the part of Facebook where you see all the stuff your so-called friends chat about.
Greenfield's point is that most of this is spam, or worse, harassment, as come-ons for things from out of left field interrupt you while you're trying to waste time.
AFTER A SCANT 2.9% RISE this year, Facebook probably has room to reverse some of the favor it has yielded to Google, and the stock can make gains the rest of this year, even at that high P/E.
Mobile will continue to be the question that dogs all these companies as the smartphone becomes more and more our "command center," as Jim Cramer recently put it.
Raymond James's Internet analyst Aaron Kessler wrote in a note last Friday that mobile advertising is now 30% of the total ad-buying by one large, presumably representative, agency that buys on Facebook, up from 20% a quarter earlier.
The same outfit told Kessler it expects mobile advertising to become half of all the buying it does. And prices for mobile ads appear to be improving.
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Tracking Every Release
We spend a lot of time gathering metrics for our network, servers, and many things going on within the code that drives Etsy. It's no secret that this is one of our keys to moving fast. We use a variety of monitoring tools to help us correlate issues across our architecture. But what most monitoring tools achieve is correlating the effects of change, rather than the causes.
Change to application code (deploys) are opportunities for failure. Tweaking pages and features on your web site cause ripples throughout the metrics you monitor, including database load, cache requests, web server requests, and outgoing bandwidth. When you break something on your site, those metrics will typically start to skew up or down.
Something obviously happened here… but what was it? We might correlate this sudden spike in PHP warnings with a drop in member logins or a drop in traffic on our web servers, but these point to effects and not to a root cause.
We need to track changes that we make to the system.
Different companies track change in ways that are reflective of their release cycle. A company that only releases new software or services once or twice a year might literally do this by distributing of a press release. Companies that move more quickly and release new products every few weeks might rely on company-wide emails to track changes. The faster the iteration schedule, the smaller and less formal the announcement becomes.
When you reach the point of releasing changes a couple of times a day, this needs to be automated and needs to be distributed to places where it is quickly accessible, such as your monitoring tools and IRC channels. At Etsy, we are releasing changes to code and application configs over 25 times a day. When the system metrics we monitor start to skew we need to be able to immediately identify whether this is a human-induced change (application code) or not (hardware failure, third-party APIs, etc.). We do this by tracking the time of every single change we ship to our production servers.
We've been using Graphite for monitoring application-level metrics for nearly a year now. These include things like numbers of new registrations, shopping carts, items sold, image uploaded, forum posts, and application errors. Getting metrics into Graphite is simple, you send a metric name, a value, and the current Unix timestamp. To track time-based events, the value sent for the metric can simply be "1". Erik Kastner added this right into our code deployment tool so that every single deploy is automatically tracked. You didn't think we did this by hand, did you?
events.deploy.website 1 1287106599
The trick to displaying events in Graphite is to apply the drawAsInfinite() function. This displays events as a vertical line at the time of the event. (Hat tip: Mark Lin, since this is not well documented.) The result looks like this:
Graphite has a wonderfully flexible URL API that allows for mixing together multiple data sets in a single graph. We can mix our code deployments right into the graph of PHP warnings we saw above.
Ah-ha! A code change occurred right after 4 PM that set off the warnings. And you can see that a second deploy was made about 10 minutes later that fixed most of the warnings, and a third deploy that squashed anything remaining.
We maintain a battery of thousands of tests that run against our application code before every single deploy, and we're adding more every day. Combined with engineers pairing up for code reviews, we catch most issues before they get deployed. Tracking every deploy allows us to quickly detect any bugs that we missed.
Equally useful is the reassurance we have that we can deploy many times a day without disrupting core functionality on the site. Across the 16 code deploys shown below, not a single one caused an unexpected blip in our member logins.
These tools highlight the good events along with the bad. Ian Malpass, who works on our customer support tools, uses Graphite to monitor the number of new posts written in our forums, where Etsy members discuss selling, share tips, report bugs, and ask for help. When we correlate these with deploys, you can see the flurry of excitement in our forums after one of our recent product launches.
Automated tracking of code deploys is essential for teams who practice Continuous Deployment. Monitoring every aspect of your server and network architecture helps detect when something has gone awry. Correlating the times of each and every code deploy helps to quickly identify human-triggered problems and greatly cut down on your time to resolve them.
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Found a link to this post from HackerNews, and decided to give it a look as I have bought several items from Etsy (good interface, I just find "awful" the fact that payment has to be split among Etsy stores, but I guess it is how it should be) in the past.
The interesting part, is that I had never thought about how this kind of problems got managed in middle-sized companies (i.e. not Amazon, Ebay, Google or anything that big). How to track changes, how to see when something goes foul and so on. Thanks for sharing this little bit of information.
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It seems that something like mixpanel could solve the big problem here?
good one.
Outbrain is also running on continues deployment and I defiantly agree such tool is essential.
Production changes are not only code deploys, it can be many infrastructure changes (adding systems, DNS changes, load balancing, network changes, etc…) these are usually not going via code deployment tool.
currently we are using Yammer channel with the hashtag #prodchange to manually follow it but it won't take that into events logging and graphing.
did Etsy solved that too?
Another great post.. I'm still waiting for the one that explains how you guys use Matlab though!!
At Kynetx, we are wanting to move in the direction of continuous deployments and this article has greatly helped my thinking about the complexity of achieving this goal.
What other pearls of wisdom do you have for an organization who wants to move really fast….safely?
Thanks for the post.
Phill, hopefully we will write a post about it eventually, but the short version is that our recommendations use the Matlab toolchain on EC2.
[...] This type of framework can make the reporting and graphing work a lot simpler and quicker. No more worrying about graphing your data and, as Etsy found, you can mix-in other things like your deployment points. [...]
Very interesting tool. Do you use any db monitoring tools and, if so, have you integrated with Graphite?
Nick, we use tools like Cacti and Ganglia to monitor the health of our DBs.
We monitor and graph some bits of database content (e.g. total registered users) with Graphite so we can plot growth rates over time. This can be done with some lightweight scripts that execute an SQL query and then send the result (a number) to Graphite.
I realize it's been a while since you posted this, but could you share any details about how you collect the metrics like PHP warnings, logins, and forum posts and add them to Graphite?
Ryan, You've actually touched on three metrics that are collected in very different ways. I can tell you a high-level summary, but details will probably be in forthcoming posts.
We aggregate metrics from various logs (e.g. our PHP errors, warnings, fatals, etc.) using a tool that is based originally on "Ganglia-logtailer" (https://bitbucket.org/maplebed/ganglia-logtailer). These are driven by a 1-minute cron job.
In other places we will execute DB queries (e.g. count of users who logged-in within the last 60 seconds), and also drive that by a 1-minute cron. This one is probably the most straight-forward.
Lastly, we have a daemon that we've written to listen for events that are sent from our application code. Every 10 seconds it aggregates everything it has collected and sends the results to Graphite.
I'm sure there will be future posts about these. There are a lot of details.
[...] levels: network, machine, and application. (You can read more about our graphs in Mike's Tracking Every Release [...]
Can you share your retention configuration from storage-schemas.conf for your events.* metrics? We're trying to do something similar with drawAsInfinite() but the lines only show up if the time frame is set to less than 3 hours, and even recent events disappear if the displayed time window is larger than that.
Joachim, It looks like we capture a lot of 10 second data points for our "events." The retention looks like this:
[...] there are things we can do, too, to notice things faster. One thing we are working to add is business metric graphs. We have useful data in Ganglia right now, but we will be using Graphite and Etsy's StatsD to [...]
[...] – The Second one is to the Nagios where it is registered and from now on it will be shown as vertical line on each of the Nagios graphs. So, In case there is a problem that will be visible in the nagios graphs – we will be able to attribute it to the deployment in proximity. The graphs are exposing 2 pieces of data: the revision number that can be searched in Yammer and the name of the engineer responsible for it so we can refer to him to ask questions. Note: this functionality was inspired from Etsy engineering – Track Every Deployment. [...]
Thanks for some great insight into tracking deployments and monitoring error rates. The relationships between deploys and forum posts is pretty awesome. I'm sure you guys will be a guiding force in helping me grow as a developer.
[...] Jenkins instance only dates back to July) so we still have a lot of work to do in terms of building awesome dashboards. And in the future we'd like to harvest more realtime data from both the tests, and from [...]
[...] Track every release (Mike Brittain). Here, we write about the methods we use to track the success of every code deploy with application metrics. This is part of the not-so-secret sauce. [...]
[...] Ganglia, Munin, etc.What kind of graphs can you make with Graphite? Lets see some cool examples:Etsy's php warnings correlated with code deploys: Other:May 22, 2006 — Myspace Friend MapsJuly 31, [...]
[...] Mike Brittain on using monitoring to notice significant changes to their site [...]
Great post. Are you aware of the graphite `/events` interface? It allows you posting richer event data than just the "standard" metrics, so you can also add things like `what`, `tags` and `data`. We use it together with our giraffe graphite dashboard (https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe), so we not only see deployment events, but also more info such as the commit message. We can filter events by tags and so on…
Graphite supports `target=events('*')` as well as specifying multiple tags, but we found it's better and more efficient to use its `events/get_data` interface to get the richer (and lighter-weight) json response.
[...] Tracking every release (Etsy, Code as Craft blog) [...]
[...] rely on a little trick that Etsy first showed off (codeascraft – track every release ) where you can graph any value in Graphite as a vertical line when the value is 1 or more. If [...]
[…] already visualize code deploys against the myriad graphs we generate, to lend context to whatever we're measuring. We use […]
[…] Send-GraphiteMetric – submits metrics to the Graphite Carbon Daemon using UDP. This can be useful on its own, for example if you want to send a metric so you know when you are about to deploy a new patch from the developers. You can compare the time of this metric to environment performance and see if the patch caused any performance impacts. Etsy has a great artilce on how they do this with Graphite here: http://codeascraft.com/2010/12/08/track-every-release/ […]


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The New Haven Register reports that union leaders say they are prepared to strike in two weeks unless the company hires more people.
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"CL&P workers deserve a fair deal, with fair wages and benefits, and Connecticut consumers deserve fair rates, with assurance that their service will be reliable and responsive," Blumenthal said. "Just last year, inadequate staffing contributed to lengthy delays in restoring electricity to countless homes, businesses, schools, and potential services."
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A Christmas Eve robbery at the Main Street Speedway led to an early morning high-speed chase for London police officers.
Johnny Perkins, 33, of 538 Moriah Church Road was arrested and charged with operating on a suspended or revoked operator's license; receiving stolen property under $10,000; first-degree fleeing or evading police; first-degree wanton endangerment of a police officer; second-degree robbery; operating a motor vehicles under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, first offense; resisting arrest; reckless driving; and flagrant non-support.
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House Of Cards - Season Two
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Politics imitates art: For his role as Majority Whip Francis Underwood, Kevin Spacey shadowed Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Tea Party-Calif., who was just elected as House Republican Majority Leader to replace ousted Eric Cantor.
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Hillary's four years as Secretary of State and a hint at what's to come.
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Yes, Virginia, you've been a Santa Claus. But to whom, exactly? For starters: Anyone who actually takes an interest in politics. The game, having grown unbearably stale, just got interesting again.
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Former First Lady and Secretary of State and likely future presidential candidate New York Senator Hillary Clinton spoke in front of an eager audience at San Jose State University last Thursday.
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Two legislators have emerged as candidates to replace RI's first openly gay House Speaker Gordon Fox after he relinquished the House speakership following FBI raids on his home and office.
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Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox is resigning from his leadership post and will not run for re-election, he said Saturday, a day after federal and state authorities raided his Statehouse office and home.
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People of Faith for Equality in Virginia has written a letter to Gov. Terry McAuliffe criticizing his expected nomination of Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones to serve as the chairperson of the Democratic Party of Virginia.
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The Carolina Hurricanes announced Monday that they fired coach Kirk Muller.
The move comes just a week after Ron Francis took over as general manager. Assistant coaches John MacLean and Dave Lewis were also dismissed, but former Hurricanes captain Rod Brind'Amour will remain on the staff.
"We thank Kirk, John and Dave for their time and effort during the past three seasons," Francis said in a statement. "Kirk and his staff worked very hard, but we feel that the team is in need of a fresh start at this time."
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4.65/5 rDev +2.4%
quality: 4.5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.5
This place is a must stop for any Beer Hunter when In Tucson. Its a small store, but they have a very nice selection of first class SW beers. They have a good selection of beers from Arizona, California and Colorado. They also have a nice selection of beers from England, Germany and Belgium. I was able to buy Rochefort 6,8 and 10 here. They do break 6 packs for single bottle sales. The staff is very knowledgeable and are extremely courteous, after purchasing 3 cases of beer, they carried it out to my car without even asking if I needed help. Probably have 400 different beers in stock, and are always willing to special order something they dont have. They also have monthly tastings.
08-21-2003 20:24:51 | More by beerguy101
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11-19-2013 06:02:52 | More by CuriousMonk
5/5 rDev +10.1%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 5 | $$$
There is a reason this place has been voted Tucson's Best Liquor Store by the Tucson Weekly ever since they started ranking the best shops in town to get your fix. This place is the ultimate wonderland for drinkers of every caliber, be they new to the game and interested in dipping into the world of craft beer, or seasoned aficionados searching for a special bottle of tequila to impress that well-traveled friend who swears he's already had the best tequila in the world just because he went to Puerto Vallarta one time.
But really, I go here for the beer. While "build a 6-pack" beer sales are quickly becoming a popular offering at chain liquor stores, Plaza Liquors has been doing it longer than the big-box stores (don't go there!) have even been in town. With a regular flow of new hard-to-find and flagship craft and import beers finding their way onto the shelves each week, it's a borderline insult to call Plaza anything less than Tucson's craft beer mecca. Only the freshest beer makes it into their inventory, and when you catch word that your favorite brewery just released that amazing seasonal you have been waiting all year to get your hands on, rest assured that it'll appear in Plaza's fridges in no time!
What's more is that the people working here are amazing human beings. Mark is one of the friendliest guys you'll ever meet, and if you happen to be a Star Trek nerd, his trekkie paraphernalia is bound to keep you entertained as you stand in line (and if you go any time around rush hour, there will most certainly be a line!) after hunting for that wine, spirit, or beer you only recently caught wind of through the grapevine. Can't decide what to buy after perusing the sea of alcoholic nectar contained in his warmly-lit shop? Ask him for a suggestion and he'll surely find you the perfect bottle to match the occasion and budget you have in mind! And ever couple weeks, Mark writes up a flyer detailing Plaza news, new inventory, and the latest neighborhood and Tucson-area activism and happenings.
Brandy is the sweetest gal you'll ever buy booze from, guaranteed. She'll always steer you in the right direction if you're looking for a recommendation, and her knowledge of sour beers is unparalleled! And after a long day at work, her smile and sprightly personality are bound to lift your spirits and set the tone for an enjoyable evening at home with your drink of choice.
Stout is THE guy to go to with your craft beer inquiries. Can't decide if you really want to blow $15 on that bomber despite the 90+ Beer Advocate rating? Ask this man for his thoughts and if he's had the beer (in all likelihood, he either has or can tell you more about it than the bottle can), you'll quickly know if it's the right beer for you. And once you become a Plaza Liquors regular like countless patrons before you have, you'll surely find yourself striking up conversations about all things fermentable with this guy each time you drop in.
In fact, you can rest assured that every soul working at Plaza Liquors has nothing but your satisfaction and happiness at the top of their priorities. By creating such a warm, familial environment, Mark has built a business staffed by people who seem to truly love their job and frequented by customers who are obliged to pay a small premium for what amounts to a joyous experience and the honor of being dubbed a "Plaza Regular."
Down the rabbit hole you shall go the first time you open the door of Plaza Liquors, and out you shall come a more enlightened consumer and a proud supporter of Tucson's finest liquor store.
04-19-2013 21:36:26 | More by DrinkBeerThinkBeer
4.93/5 rDev +8.6%
vibe: 5 | quality: 5 | service: 5 | selection: 4.75 | $$
Plaza is a great locally-owned store. They have an impressive collection of craft beers, and the staff are super friendly. They are also dog-friendly, and have treats for my pup every time we come in! You can mix your own six-pack, and beers are individually-priced, which makes it easy to find the price point you're looking for.
01-13-2013 03:29:51 | More by AmandaLu
4.3/5 rDev -5.3%
vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 4.5 | selection: 4 | $$
Stopped by this place on a business trip after reading reviews here on BA.
Its in a small plaza...kind of hidden, but good parking and somewhat easy to find.
Atmosphere - its a liquor store...cool beerk geeks behind the counter
Nice selection of brews...lots of odell, New Belgium, local Arizona, epic, left hand, lost abbey, and rogue. I bought a Fantome Boo! - $15, an odell Mountain Standard single, and a Bells New Coast Old Ale ~ $2.50 each. You can mix singles (awesome for travellers) and apparently you get a discount if you pick up anything over a case...
So nice selecton, not huge, but well stocked and thoughtful, good nice service, and somewhat reasonable/average prices. Nice spot.
12-10-2012 05:10:23 | More by DrinkSlurm
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vibe: 4 | quality: 4.5 | service: 3.5 | selection: 4.5 | $$
The service here seems nice... if you're a regular. If you're a guy like me who only stops in every few months because he lives too far away, they could care less. When they finally ask if I need help it has more of that "We're watching you" vibe than that "I'm here to help" vibe.
The selection is pretty awesome, the bombers need more rotation since about half of what I saw here the other day was the same as what I saw when I was last here like.. 6 months ago?
I still really want to like this place though. Their true selection lies in the singles they have in the back of the store where you can make your own six pack. That's some good stuff.
I said they're reasonable because they basically compare to other craft beer places. A little more expensive than a Total Wine or BevMo, but that is expected if you want to shop local. And honestly, that doesn't bother me. They are close to the same prices as my usual store (Magee Road Liquors), but they have a different type of selection. Its cool, so if you're in town or in the area, its worth checking out.
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R. Kelly shoots off "Fireworks" on the new single from his Epic album, hitting stores Sept. 21. Over a snapping, guitar-laced melody care of Polow Da Don, Kellz sings about seeing colors dance across the night sky, crooning inspirational lyrics like, "I feel emotions deep inside my bones/ Like an ocean when the wave gets strong/ I feel today is my victory/ I've gotta get out there and make history."
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On to the Kilpatrick Civic Fund, people in business thought they were helping a non-profit.
"We haven't used one penny, one penny of the Civic Fund in this campaign because it's not allowed by law," said Kwame in 2001 mayoral debate video.
Derrick Miller testified that they would lie about using that money because no one was going to check.
More lies were told to donors of the KCF, "no funds are donated to any political campaign." In reality, it was used to pay for polling companies. Political consultant Bob Berg was paid. all to the end of getting Kwame elected mayor.
Kwame told people it was used fro West side cubs. Heard from William Tandy about the great program. Get out the vote.
In 2000, it was used to pay for a Cadillac lease. Paid for yoga classes that even defense witness said was not appropriate. Went to spa retreats. Jim Thomas tried to suggest he went for mayoral conventions but there were no records of that. Went to the LaCosta spa with family in California and the Civic Fund bill was $8,600. That's almost the entire amount the Civic Fund gave to the West side Cubs.
Paid for his kids' preschool graduation parties for $5,000. Linda Bird, the school director said the kids were still there.
There was summer camp, golf clubs and an embroidered bag for $3,000. Also tried to use Civic Fund check to buy Manoogian Mansion furniture but Mary Fleming wouldn't take it.
As the Civic Fund was winding down, Ferguson put $75,000 in. Was he giving it to charity? Suggest he was sharing spoils to Kwame.
You heard from victims like Mary Pew who had no idea money was used for personal gain. That's where we come to mail fraud. When you use false pretenses, like telling donors you're not using money for political campaigns and use the US mail, that's mail fraud. Only difference with wire fraud is that it can be a fax between 2 different states. In this case, Michigan to Illinois.
12:50PM I said at the beginning that Kwame was using office for personal purposes. Look at his bank records. In 2000, at his account in Lansing there were no big deposits. something changes in 2002, cash starts pouring in. Cash deposits at the Chase Bank account. Look at those records, there is no spike at his birthday or Christmas. This is not salary which is direct deposited into his accounts.
Raises question where does it come from. Heard from Emma Bell, Karl Kado, miller and Jon Rutherford. Those people were not main source of cash.
No mystery why Kwame went out of his way for Ferguson contracts. That's because Ferguson was sharing spoils, profits of Kilpatrick Inc.
"The safe in the room in the closet were you hang coats. code is 101. $7,500"
Heard from Mahlon Clift who was a Kwame friend who said he took $90,000 in cash from Ferguson, flew to Chicago, put the money in his vacuum cleaner and then flew to Southlake, TX to give him half money in September 2008.
this was not a gift, these were the spoils of Kilpatrick Inc.
Emma Bell had a hard time testifying. Considered Kwame like a son. It was the hardest thing for Bell to admit that the boy she saw grow into a man , requested kickbacks from her commission. Thomas pressed her hard, and she said "there are 2 people in this room and God who know the truth."
Looking at check from August 6th 2003.
Text "Emma wants to stop in in 5 to 10 minutes max," from Dedan Milton on the same day. Bell went to see Kwame that same day to give him cash.
The kickback from Bell is under mail fraud because money was from letters send to donors who didn't know that Kwame was getting kickbacks.
Homeless shelter tycoon Jon Rutherford is on his way to federal prison. Kwame accepted money from him and all sorts of other payments. Kwame also did something else illegal- solicited cash $10,000 to buy suits in Dubai, $5,000 for Vegas trip. Kwame knew why Rutherford was happy to give him cash- he wanted a casino on the Riverfront and was willing to pay to make it happen. When a public official accepts cash like that, you know that person expects you to do something for them. That's bribery.
Heard judge talk about obstruction of justice. If you try to get someone to lie to federal grand jury, that's obstruction of justice. Ferguson was trying to secretly give $40,000 to Kilpatrick for Mayor and did that through different people, including the 3 sisters who testified. Ferguson tried to get them to lie. One sister testified that Ferguson showed up in her bedroom and told her to lie to federal investigators.
1:00PM The big money was in the DWSD. $88.3 million dollars that Ferguson got through extortion. Let's talk about Lakeshore Engineering which was a Detroit-0based, minority business that was up and coming in 2002. The only matter that really mattered to Kilpatrick Inc was green. Contract 1361, a $10 million, was won by Lakeshore fair and square. It was approved by City Council but before mayor signed off, Ferguson came requesting 25% to Tom Hardiman.
When Hardiman declined, Ferguson told him "It still has to go by the mayor's desk." Ferguson talked to his employer Avinash Rachmale and they decided with a lower offer. Ferguson said we'll see. Derrick Miller testified that DWSD head told him that Kwame had him holding the water contract.
Text "you haven't released that contract right" Ferguson texted Kwame. The contract was ultimately canceled. Lakeshore lost a $10 million contract. Another contract, 1387, was for $5 million. Hardiman in direct testimony said over and over "10 million. 5 million." as why they decided to pay Ferguson later.


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Mike Furrey has been named wide receivers coach at Marshall.
Furrey spent two seasons as head coach and offensive coordinator at Kentucky Christian of the NAIA.
He also was a high school position coach in London, Ohio, and spent eight seasons in the NFL with the St. Louis Rams, Detroit Lions, Cleveland Browns and Washington Redskins. While with the Lions, Furrey led the NFC with 98 receptions in 2006.
"It is a pleasure to welcome Mike and his family to our program," said Marshall head coach Doc Holliday. "He brings with him an outstanding resume, not only as a coach and a person, but also as someone who played at the game's highest level for the length he did. Our wide receiver unit is in good hands."
At KCU, he took an 0-11 program and turned it into one that boasted a 7-4 record and a national ranking of No. 25 in NAIA Division I by the end of the season last fall.
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JaJuan Seider is rejoining West Virginia's football program as running backs coach. Seider replaces Robert Gillespie, who was hired last week at Tennessee. Seider has been running backs coach and recruiting coordinator at Marshall since 2010. He was a graduate assistant at West Virginia in 2008 and 2009.