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Penfolds Grange
Australian Wine Royalty
By: WineMarketDate: 21/07/2014
It's true A-lister stuff. There aren't many wines in existence that have reached the dizzying heights of status and collectability as Penfolds Grange. It's undeniably the premier wine of Australia, commanding consistent praise for its quality as well as huge commercial interest due to its historic value. Grange prices today can reach up to $50,000 a bottle, far and away more than any other commercially produced Australian wine in history. And the legend of the stuff is still growing.
The History of Grange
Known until 1989 as "Penfolds Grange Hermitage" (the French made us change it), Australia's most premium wine began as an experiment. More than sixty years ago, Max Schubert, the then young Chief Winemaker at Penfolds, set out to create an Australian version of the powerful, long-aging French reds that he had tasted in Bordeaux.
Beginning with the 1951 vintage, Schubert substituted the Bordeaux staple of Cabernet Sauvignon for South Australian Shiraz, and the tight, subtle French oak for thirsty, broader-grained American barrels. He wanted big fruit weight for an Aussie table wine that would be truly premium.
The result was a lusty, full-bodied and powerfully concentrated red that unfortunately, the Australian wine public was not quite ready for. In the early '50s, less than 10% of the Aussie market belonged to still table wines, with most drinkers preferring fortified styles. The table wines that were made were mostly lighter and less intensely flavoured, and this Penfolds Grange Hermitage was unlike anything produced in Australia before. But Grange was about to change the industry forever. Australia was about to begin its obsession with buying Penfolds Grange.
After the experimental '51 vintage, Penfolds released Grange to the public beginning with the 1952 wine the next year, and it sold modestly until Penfolds instructed Schubert to cease production in 1957, due to sluggish sales and no real market buzz. But luckily for us, Mr Schubert wasn't one for strictly worrying about what the bosses said.
So What is Grange?
Even after it was officially discontinued, Max Schubert continued producing Grange in secret, until Penfolds asked him to start again in 1960, when they realised how well the older vintages were aging. They were pleasantly surprised to learn that he'd never stopped making the stuff in the first place and it went straight back on the shelves. A great deal of Grange's value comes from not only a lineage more than 60 years old, but also the fact that the line is unbroken, allowing for vertical tastings and year-to-year comparisons.
And as for the makeup of the wine itself? Grange is a multi-regional, South Australian Shiraz, made each year from a unique combination of fruit parcels grown on premium Penfolds sites across the state. The makers strive above all for consistency; ensuring that each vintage of Grange is instantly recognised by the educated drinker as the iconic house style.
The idea is that even in vintages that see extreme or unusual weather conditions over the growing months, Grange will be blended in such a way that it is not so much an expression of where its components were grown, but an expression of a long-standing tradition of taste and style.
Penfolds Grange Winemakers
Since Max Schubert first created Australia's most famous wine back in '51, only three others have been entrusted with continuing the unbroken streak of production.
Schubert made the wine himself until 1975, when the Chief Winemaker role was passed on to Don Ditter, then again in 1986 to John Duval, and finally to Penfolds' current Chief Winemaker Peter Gago in 2002.
Even though the Penfolds brand has grown in leaps and bounds over the six decades of Grange's existence, Peter Gago remains as hands-on as his predecessors, personally overseeing every bit of Grange's long journey from vine to bottle.
A Penfolds man through and through, Gago graduated top of his class at Roseworthy, Australia's top wine school, and has worked with the company ever since.
Grange- A Swag of Awards
Since the beginning, Grange has captivated professional tasters and customers alike, powering its way to the massive international cult status that it enjoys today.
On top of standout vintages such as the 1955, 1990 and 2008 winning praise from around the globe at the highest level, almost every new bottle of Grange has won impressive accolades in its own right. Countless medals, trophies, the highest classification from Langton's, the list goes on.
Penfolds Grange prices have shot up, demand is through the roof, and it's become every wine lover's ambition to buy Penfolds Grange.
Penfolds Grange Vintage Overview
The exact amount of Grange produced each year is a closely guarded secret, with Penfolds having only ever disclosed the number of bottles released in the original 1951 vintage (only 100 cases). Production today is huge compared to those three pioneer barrels of '51, but there's little danger of a surplus any time soon. With each passing year the demand to buy Penfolds Grange increases as the world (particularly Asia in recent years) gets thirstier for the top Aussie drop.
While Grange is known for its extraordinary aging ability, very few of the early vintages are still in their drinking prime. Their value lies in their rarity, especially the so-called "Secret Granges"; those produced without the consent of Penfolds management. That being said, there are still some truly top-notch vintages from the early years that are still drinking well. These Granges are the stuff of dreams; some of the oldest, rarest wines on earth that haven't turned to salad dressing. Continuing proof of the quality of Penfolds Grange.
The 1990 Grange
was the vintage to put not only the company, but all Australian reds on the map. Awarded the international title of "Red Wine of the Year" by Wine Spectator magazine in 1995, it was proof that Aussies could make world-class wines in a country about as far removed from the traditional home of the grape as geographically possible.
With the success of Grange came worldwide recognition of our entire industry. More Grange vintages followed, and Australia's favourite Red grew in fame and popularity.
Most recently, the 2008 Grange
vintage was released with reviews rivalling the fame 1990, with both Wine Spectator and The Wine Advocate rating it 100 points- an extremely rare perfect score.
The 2009 Grange
packs slightly less of the powerful punch that many long-time fans have come to look for, but Penfolds Chief Winemaker Peter Gago predicts that many others will be drawn to the surprisingly complex tannin structure. And with the strong growing season that South Australia had again in 2010, the release of the
2010 Grange (in early 2015)
is sure to bring more praise to Australia's most drinkable export.


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Ben Swann's "Reality Check" explains QE3 and what it means for you.
Quantitative Easing 3 is the latest commienomics shakedown where the Federal Reserve crime syndicate buys $40+ billion per month of mortgage-backed bonds, e.g., your mortgage. They create the money out of thin air on their keyboards, and get your property if you default. This is nothing new: Most of our personal income taxes pay the interest on the bogus keyboard national debt to these criminals and their government accomplices. Giving much of your life's energy to pay a fake debt is slavery, and terminally stupid. We can, and have, created and issued our own debt-free, interest-free, and tax-free Constitutional money, but not with the current government employees.

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Petitioner: Quinnen Adams
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54003082014-12-04T23:20:02.977-05:00McEs, A Hacker LifeBehdad Esfahbod's daily notes on GNOME, Pango, Fedora, Persian Computing, Bob Dylan, and Dan Bern!behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-78335847114728130022014-01-14T02:59:00.002-05:002014-01-14T03:00:34.280-05:00GLyphyGLyphy is an experiment in high-quality glyph rendering using OpenGL ES2 shaders. It's a project of mine at Google that I never really publicly announced.

I worked on it mostly in 2011 and 2012. The work was then stalled when I refocused on HarfBuzz, but also because there were no immediate target platform for it. That has changed recently as mobile GPUs have caught up and can run GLyphy fairly well now. So I'll be spending more time on it this year.

Last week at linux.conf.au I presented GLyphy which was recorded. The video is here. And there's a mailing list for it. The source for the slides are here.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-32801236503077832292014-01-05T10:20:00.000-05:002014-01-05T11:21:18.757-05:00linux.conf.auIn the Summer of 2003 I visited Ottawa for a Computer Science workshop. Before getting there I also noticed that there's Ottawa Linux Symposium going on after my workshop, so I made it there, and stayed at Carlton's Leeds College. It was my first Linux conference. I knew no one. I met Keith Packard for the first time. The closing keynote was by Rusty Russel, and left me energized about the community.

Since then Free Software conferences have taken me to Montreal, Barcelona, Glasgow, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Canary Islands, Austin, Boston, San Francisco, Istanbul, Wroclaw, Vienna, Berlin, and Amsterdam, among others. I got to become part of a fantastic community.

Last night I arrived in Perth, Australia, home to the last major conference I wanted to speak at.

Today, at registration, I saw Keith, so went to say hi. He asked:

 - You here to talk about your crazy glyph rendering stuff?
 - Yes, have you seen it?
 - Oh yeah, it's insane!

Then I headed to the first-timers' session run by Rusty.

Walking last night at University of Western Australia's Trinity college campus made me realize how much I had missed the Free Software conference scene, and made me feel great being here. That, and the southern-hemisphere night sky.behdadhttp://email@example.com WA, Australia-31.9530044 115.85746930000005-33.6770629 113.27568230000004 -30.2289459 118.43925630000005tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-83850110534961439132013-06-23T02:24:00.001-04:002013-06-23T02:24:40.771-04:00Iran Presidential Election 2013 Vote Count per CountyJust finished downloading the 125 pages of vote counts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs portal, massaged them into usable data and put into a public spreadsheet. Will add extra sheets for analysis in the coming days. Feel free to clone, do your own analysis, and share back with me to integrate. May Mebane run with it...behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-47842431849933313992012-11-22T17:08:00.000-05:002013-07-18T15:01:12.693-04:00High-DPI, Subpixel Text Positioning, Hinting
What happens when an unstoppable bullet hits an impenetrable wall?

A while back I wrote a document about the interactions of high-density displays and font rendering options. I just went ahead and made it public, so, enjoy!

High-DPI, Subpixel Text Positioning, Hinting

Update (July 18, 2013): It was brought to my attention that the document had disappeared. I have no idea how that happened, but I've uploaded it again. It also means that the URL has changed. :(behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-48348516123589134832011-11-02T14:43:00.000-04:002011-11-02T14:43:55.920-04:00"Behdad's Calendar" now available at taghvim.infoSince behdad.org is blocked in Iran these days, I went ahead and made my Iranian calendar thingy available at taghvim.info. Let me know if it doesn't work.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-78428663154519224932011-10-08T15:58:00.008-04:002011-10-10T12:42:18.042-04:00In Montréal for "Boston" SummitAfter a crazy Oktoberfest party in Kitchener last night, I woke up at 6:45 this morning, drove back to Toronto, took the ferry to the Island, took a Porter flight to Montréal, took the 747 downtown, took the 165 up to Queen Mary, walked up the hill to Polytechnique to arrive at the GNOME "Boston" Summit. Found Matthias, Owen, Ryan, and Andreas in the hallway, shook hands and received hugs, and felt right at home!

Inside, saw Colin and Marina among a few other familiar faces and many new ones. Marina explained that the reason she looks so sleepy is that she was blogging Ada Lovelace Day last night at 3am. Which of course reminded me that it was Finding Ada yesterday. So I thought I hereby list my own pick of women that I have had the pleasure to work with, and who, in my opinion, have made a lasting contribution to GNOME. Now I don't have to preach these awesome women to this crowd, so I'll just summarize my own experience with them in a two lines. In no particular order:

Marina Zhurakhinskaya has been critical to the Women Outreach Program success and happening in recent years, so for that alone she deserves a special mention. That's independent of she being part of the every-awesome GNOME Shell team. Plus, she's so nice and great to hangout with in person.

Stormy Peters wrote in her job application for the GNOME Executive Director as part of her responsibilities to be the "mom". And she delivered! It was a pleasure being on the board when she was in charge. Plus, she's so energetic she brightens everyone around her whereever she goes!

Karen Sandler is awesome in spite of being a lawyer! I have not had the opportunity to work with her in her new role, but at the Software Freedom Law Center, she was a great resource to the GNOME board, and much easier to get hold of than, well, other Free Software lawyers. Now, I did not actually know about her DJ hobby (check her website!) and wedding invitation until today. Waiting to run into her here to learn more :-D.

Rosanna Yuen is hard to find on Planet GNOME, and that's a shame. Many may not know her, she's sometimes better recognized as zana. Fortunately she's been making more regular appearance at GUADEC. Anyway, it's hard to imagine anything in the Board / Foundation level getting happened without her back-office work. She moves the money, she keeps the book, she knows what happened in the board five years ago! Plus, sometimes researches and books the venue for Boston Summit too.

At GUADEC this year, and at the Summit today I had the opportunity to meet a few young ladies rather new to the GNOME family: Pat, Kat, Meg, and Nohemi: you girls rock! I hope I blog about you for the years to come!

Went for lunch with Marina and Owen, had a great Thai chicken green curry, and talked food. I was thinking about a small project to hack on while at the summit and I thought I pickup rewrapping lines in vte / gnome-terminal upon width change. It's a well-defined well-contained problem, I have a design in mind, and one of the most common requests against vte. I passed my design past Owen, we agreed that it should work, and I hope that's what I'm going to hack on. Stay tuned!

I want to close by a picture of my favorite GNOME artist with the coolest hair style:

[Woah, long post! Been a while since I last did that...]behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-47131134216218616382011-09-28T00:54:00.003-04:002011-09-28T01:05:02.919-04:00Events of significance for Sep 26 and Sep 271982: I was born.

1998: Google was born.

2011: My personal website was filtered in Iran.

2011: Roozbeh joined Google.behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-90083144734653493672011-08-11T04:45:00.002-04:002011-08-11T06:34:15.985-04:00Can I has intel tablet?So I missed the intel party it seems. I assume the tablets are GLES2-ready and have a fair pixel density. If that is the case, I can make good use of one for OpenGL-based text rendering I'm experimenting with. If there are leftovers at the summit, I'd happily take one!

kthxbye :)
behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-67377021159370694172011-08-07T08:24:00.003-04:002011-08-07T08:26:48.094-04:00Arrived at the Desktop SummitJust got to the Desktop Summit in Berlin. It's lovely seeing everyone after two years.

I'm running Text Layout Summit August 9th to 12th, so come find me for some font and text chat!behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-75164566565034621522011-05-26T18:46:00.006-04:002011-05-26T19:00:41.712-04:00Contributor AgreementsIt should be clear by now that I've gave up on blogging. Couple things I found worth writing down for da Nets today:

By way of GNOME Foundation Board of Directors election discussion I read the this LWN piece titled "Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software". A couple remarks on it:

I have a lot of respect for Mark and all, but, is that really what he believes?

Mark would make a great Republican politician!

"Project Harmony", that name has worked in the past. Twice. One resulted in Free Qt, the other in Free Java. What would it do this time?

In other, more this-worldly, news, Bixi arrived in Toronto. It has become my favorite mode of transportation in downtown core.behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-78342095499851894672011-04-06T16:19:00.002-04:002011-04-06T16:23:56.670-04:00GNOME 3.0GNOME 3.0 released.
Slashdot effect observed.
No Slashdot post in sight.
Great job, everyone!behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-64788356197938886812010-11-11T13:40:00.002-05:002010-11-11T13:55:21.925-05:00CSS3 font goodnessHere's a nice blogpost from John Dagget of Firefox fame about the upcoming Firefox 4 supporting CSS3 OpenType font-feature support:

Firefox 4: OpenType font feature support

This is a direct result of the HarfBuzz code I've been working on for the past year or so. Exciting stuff for the web.behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-19959080654215500602010-10-22T15:33:00.002-04:002010-10-22T15:41:51.639-04:00A Digital Media Primer for GeeksThis is a few weeks old, but so good I still wanted to share. Brought to you by xiph.org and Red Hat and featuring my old colleage, Monty, of xiph.org and Red Hat fame: A Digital Media Primer for Geeks. Looking forward to the followup episodes.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-73620222575012792372010-10-01T21:21:00.003-04:002010-10-01T21:42:53.406-04:00Dear Lazyweb: Netflix on Bravia in CanadaDear LazyWeb,

With the recent launch of Netflix in Canada, here comes the question I've been unable to answer so far:

How do I use Netflix on my Bravia-enabled Sony TV or Blu-ray player? The net suggests that both should be able to play, yet it's not in the menus by default, and the internet gods have not been that helpful so far.

My current understanding is that the Canadian version of the Sony Bravia products doesn't have the Netflix channel and all I can do is to wait for a firmware update. Will be glad to be proven wrong.

kthxbye
bbehdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-28506803838419857262010-07-28T04:19:00.003-04:002010-07-28T04:22:47.268-04:00Missing GUADECMy friends in the Hague will slowly start the process of resuming from sleep and dealing with hangover, eventually heading for the conference venue as I write this, because, right, it's GUADEC time, and I'm missing out :-(.

Hope you all have your best GUADEC so far. Wish I was there.

behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-90572953623404675562010-06-30T16:39:00.002-04:002010-06-30T23:52:12.742-04:00JuneJune 18th was my last day at Red Hat.

I spent last week road-tripping to Eastern Canada with my friends.

In a couple of weeks I will start working for Google Canada in the Waterloo office. I will be working for a large part on HarfBuzz as part of the Chrome / ChromeOS team.

Unfortunately the setup also means that I have to skip this year's GUADEC as I can't get a visa on time :(.

I will keep my current GNOME duties, namely maintaining the text stack (fribidi, fontconfig, harfbuzz, pango, etc) as well as vte. The break may give me some time hacking on things I couldn't get the time to hack on before even. We'll see.

That's all for June.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-82240294123132393962010-05-11T12:55:00.003-04:002010-05-11T13:05:52.668-04:00Dan Bern Live in Los AngelesIf you ever enjoyed a Dan Bern song, or generally appreciate good folk-rock music, check out his new album Dan Bern Live in Los Angeles in which he performs with the Common Rotation and Mike Viola.

The album includes a couple extremely funny new songs: "Most American Men", "Osama in Obamaland", and a lovely performance of some of his classics. "Beautiful Ride" is from the movie Walk Hard, which he wrote the score for. Also includes the first official release of "The Fifth Beatle". Trivia: his Dylan mockery in The Fifth Beatle is actually legible in the album, unlike previous live performances.

Anyway, extremely enjoyable album, highly recommended. Makes a great gift too. He's still touring the US, check it out. Unfortunately no Toronto :-(.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-66951736655037978752010-04-23T19:39:00.002-04:002010-04-23T19:42:53.202-04:00Create a font in less than three minutes with Glyphtracer and FontForgeJussi Pakkanen posted the following to the Fontforge list today:

Hi all

I have written a simple program to help creating fonts from images. It is called Glyphtracer. The basic idea is that you give it an image file containing all your glyphs. The program autodetects glyphs in the picture and allows the user to assign each detected glyph with a Unicode code point. These images are then traced to vectors and written to an SFD file. The rest of the work is then done with FontForge.

To make things clear, here's a video showing how you can create a font from scratch in about two minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7x6mtptDAY

Glyphtracer's home page is https://launchpad.net/glyphtracer. The program is written entirely in PyQT4 and is currently Linux only.

Cool stuff!behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-63323732229750188842010-04-01T03:20:00.002-04:002010-04-01T03:26:55.120-04:00Parsing CSS-style margin attributesSounds silly, but I found the following construct handy:

 int margin_t, margin_r, margin_b, margin_l;
 switch (sscanf (optarg, "%d %d %d %d",
 &margin_t, &margin_r,
 &margin_b, &margin_l))
 {
 case 0: err;
 case 1: margin_r = margin_t;
 case 2: margin_b = margin_t;
 case 3: margin_l = margin_r;
 }

behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-33485241240752258992010-03-20T11:53:00.000-04:002010-03-20T12:03:40.224-04:00Happy NowrouzHappy Nowrouz to all my Iranian friends. Wishing you all the best in the year to come.

Last year was the most eventful year of my life. Looking forward to the next one.

(I don't have any artistic talent, so no cards from me ;)).behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-69485154186824715342010-03-13T00:24:00.003-05:002010-03-13T00:30:52.774-05:00RebootI didn't blog for almost three months! It has been a hectic few months, I've had so much on my plate I could hardly get anything done. So I spent some time this week unsubscribing from tens of mailing lists, and even more website newsletters, trying to bring my incoming emails considerably down so I can actually get work done. I think I'm there now. I'm still on all the core lists relevant to my work (font & text related lists; and haven't unsub'ed from foundation-list yet) and hope to do a better job pushing harfbuzz as well as maintaining pango, fontconfig, and vte. Anyway, it's easy enough to find my email. Feel free to send me mail or CC me on discussion I should be reading. And I try to do a better job of posting what I'm up to.behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-33818793359901373822010-03-12T15:56:00.002-05:002010-03-12T18:17:11.106-05:00Stepping down from the GNOME Foundation boardWhen I decided to run for the foundation board in 2006, many of the old timers where not running again and there was the feeling that new people are needed on the board. The board work has been very educational and rewarding for me, but given other engagements and all the new, capable, people on the board this year, I think it's time for me to step down so I can focus on hacking.

The board has decided to appoint Paul Cutler to take the seat. Paul has been doing wonders on the marketing team, GNOME Journal, and the sysadmin team. I'm sure this opportunity gives him more ways to contribute to GNOME even more.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-50266102157866124332009-12-17T05:59:00.003-05:002009-12-17T06:18:51.599-05:00Europe, here I come!I wrote my last exam on Tue night and We afternoon headed to the airport to get to Spain for the WebKitGtk hackfest at the Igalia offices. At this time, stuck in Frankfurt airport after missing my connection.

After the hackfest I'm doing a mini tour of Western Europe, thanks to RailEurope. Mostly visiting friends and family. Currently looking like: Frankfurt -> Kassel -> Paris -> Brussels -> Amsterdam -> Hanover -> Berlin -> (Maybe) Zurich.

Looking forward to meet GNOME guys. And will blog about hackfest progression. Before you ask, my mandate for the event is to port WebKit to use the new HarfBuzz API.behdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-7845100484501657942009-12-11T06:24:00.003-05:002010-01-25T14:46:21.923-05:00Lazyweb: Conference organizing/scheduling softwareDear Lazyweb:

What are the best Free Software conference orginizing / scheduling pieces of software?

We are looking for things more sophisticated than Drupal's conference module. Two years ago we used expectnation, a kickass hosted service that Edd Dumbill kindly offered to GUADEC free of charge. But we are looking to host our own within the GUADEC infrastructure now that we finally have started looking into building real infrastructure for running GUADEC website on an ongoing basis as opposed to rebuilding it from scratch every year.

So, please leave comments and share your experience. Thanks in advance.behdadhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400308.post-66144394723304846652009-11-25T18:03:00.004-05:002009-11-25T18:06:12.269-05:00Funny spamQuite slick actually compared to the average spam I get...

Subject: This is hard for me to say

This is quite hard for me and I haven't been able to let you know up till now (you'd know why if you knew who I was)...but I have a crush on you.
You'll have to find out who I am though (I'm quite shy and this is without a doubt the bravest thing I've ever done). To help you out I made some videos and pictures with your nickname over my body. The photos and videos are kind of risque so I had to make a name at Black Book and put them there. My username in the members area is " behdad.esfahbodandme2009" (it's a free website).
But anyway, get on Black Book and once you are in, take a look for me. I want you to guess who I am and then approach me yourself. Good luck.

Hugs and kisses, Your secret admirer

PS. You'll get no extra help by e-mailing me back, so don't try :Pbehdadhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Well, we have finished up the 28 day Engine 2 Diet challenge. This was by far the most difficult 'diet' that I have ever tried. I probably would have dropped out within the first few days had it not been for the incentive of having a bunch of other firefighters giving me hell had I dropped.
This diet is more about a lifestyle change but it is also a quick fix solution for those who need to make drastic changes for the good of their health. It's a pretty difficult diet to follow and is not for the faint of heart. Luckily, the author does have two approaches to the diet, the Fire Cadet which eases you into the program, or the Firefighter which is where you jump in feet first, all the way. I'm not a gradual type of person, so it was all or nothing (did I mention I was competing with a bunch of Type A personality firefighters). John also decided to join in on the diet adventure so he could make fun of me the whole time. Yes, us firefighters have a sick sense of humor and are willing to go to great lengths to torture our brothers and sisters in service and/or their spouses.
Within two weeks of being on the program, we were both exhausted. I was close to not being able to function fully and John was just barely hanging on. I thought for sure that I was trying to get over the bad respiratory infection that I had several weeks prior. Finally. I went to our local health food store and talked to the specialist there. This guy knows his stuff. I listed out my diet, my routine, my excercise routines, my job duties, etc. He immediately said that I was not getting enough protein or iron. He also said that I probably needed more B vitamins. He said that it is extremely difficult to become a vegan (which is pretty much what the Engine 2 Diet is about) without a lot of planning, research, preparation, and adjusting lifestyle. It was also extremely hard for me because I was not willing to eat as much soy or soy based products. Soy is where you get much of your protien from.
The gentleman at the store put me on some meal replacement bars to help me get through the 28 days and I also purchased some energy supplements. He suggested that I instead switch over to a lacto/ovo vegetarian lifestyle instead. Now that I am done with the 28 day trial, that is what I will be doing. While I agree with everything the author wrote in his book, I believe it is also extreme and might not be the diet of choice for everyone. If you are the type of person who likes a good challenge and you are wanting to change your eating habits, then I highly reccomend his book. I lost nearly 12 pounds which is good but not what I was expecting. I do feel better now that I am getting more protien and iron into my system. I have also found that when I eat heavier foods, I feel pretty darn sick afterward. Not a fun feeling to have.
While I was in Nebraska, I had some time to read and so I checked out two amazing books on vegetarianism and I highly recommend them to you, if you are looking for a lifestyle change and you are considering becoming a vegetarian.
The first book: offers some wonderful words of wisdom for those individuals who do not want to be full on vegan or vegetarian or they are wanting to switch to the next level. I loved this book and all of the recipes that they offer. They are doable. I have this one ordered because I almost have the library copy worn out.
The other book that I recommend is I have learned so much about the vegetarian lifestyle in the pages of this book. It also looks like it's been put through the wringer. It really talked about the health reasons a person should try to incorporate as much of the vegetarianism into their lifestyle.
I plan on sticking to a mostly vegetarian lifestyle. Vegan is too hardcore for me and for the life that I am living. John will probably be adding some meat back to his diet. I will only add back fish and turkey on occasion. I have to say though, that since I started this challenge, whenever I eat something that is higher in fat, I feel sick immediately. Once you start eating a clean diet, when you put trash back into your body, your body doesn't not take to kindly to it. That was a hard lesson to learn.
So vegetarianism…here I come. I will report on how I'm doing with this type of eating over the next few weeks. If you are a vegetarian, do you have any suggestions or tips?


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Matthew Kelly and Claire Sweeney teach a lesson with Educating Rita
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on Monday 25th of June 2012
Along with Willy Russells Shirley Valentine this is one of my favourite plays. Maybe its the down-to-earth, every day, strong female heroines that appeal. However, having done the whole Open University thing in my youth this play holds a special place in my heart. And with Michael Caine and Julie Walters brilliant film performance etched on my memory and a fundamental dislike for television presenters and soap opera stars, I wasnt exactly anticipating a brilliant evenings entertainment especially after a somewhat fraught Monday.
The story is about Rita, a hairdresser, who wishes to expand her mind (against her husbands wishes who wants to start a family) and signs up to an Open University literature course which involves weekly tutorials with Frank, who was once an aspiring poet and is now drinking heavily and living with a former student as his wife left him.
The set that familiar book filled, dusty tutors room was fabulous. So the designers and the lighting chaps - deserve a pat on the back. Almost as soon as the first scene started, I was impressed with the quick fire exchanges between Frank (Kelly) and Rita (Sweeney) and their natural rapport. Dare I say, it was somehow more credible than the Caine-Walters combo.
Whilst I was worried that the lack of other characters (as seen in the film) would diminish the experience, I found that the characters reports of the events in their lives made it more compelling. There are so many great lines it is hard to draw any out for special note but I always liked the observation, coming from a hairdresser, that change within is more important than change on the outside. Very pertinent as the row over airbrushed models rumbles on.
Each short scene charts another weekly meeting and the growing closeness of Frank and Rita unfolds gently punctuated with great exchanges and a good few laughs. The first half ends at the low point as Rita leaves her husband and learns that her Macbeth essay is worthless. In the second half we see Rita make academic progress and a new social circle as Frank falls deeper into his alcoholic self-pity. I loved that line Pissed? I was glorious! line.
The play always provokes reflection. The escape through education message seems strangely anachronistic these days which is a great shame as hundreds of thousands of people have benefitted from the Open University system. Yet the idea that you can find yourself betwixt and between those you leave behind and those you strive to join must still be familiar to many. And the disillusionment we experience with those that we admire from the outside, when we find them less than we imagined when we join them on the inside is all too common today. And I think that I find Russells criticism of the monster that Frank helps create just a tiny bit unfair.
Overall, I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the performance enormously.
The show which runs from 730pm to 930pm - is on until Saturday at Richmond Theatre and then it moves to Brighton http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/educating-rita/richmond-theatre/#
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A couple of weeks ago, I was
glad to see the United States
Senate for once stop all of its
bickering and put the good of the
country at its best interest. Yes,
they came together as one and not
as separate parties and made the
decision to vote for the economic
bailout. Whether it was the right
decision is still up to us to decide,
but the fact that they stopped
bickering, putting their differences
aside long enough to do
this, was wonderful.
So many times when we
bicker, nothing ever gets accomplished
and we lose sight of what
is best for everyone and opportunities
are lost and the damage is
There has been a lot of bickering
in Bamberg County in the
last five years and opportunities
have been lost and yes
lots of
damage has been done.
Bickering between the two
towns of Denmark and Bamberg
over where the proposed new
hospital should have been built
has caused that window of opportunity
to be lost and again it has
caused a lot of resentment and
hard feelings amongst the two
Dont get me wrong now, I
know that both towns have a lot
of good people in them and it is a
shame that they could not get
together and do what was right
for the best interest of the
Now, the County is at risk of
losing one of its biggest industries
and who knows where we
could have been if we could have
only stopped the bickering.
Now once again another
opportunity has been lost. The
Town of Ehrhardt has lost a wonderful
opportunity to use the
vacant Elementary School building
for whatever they wanted to
with one exception
it could not
be used for a private/charter
school. Why was this opportunity
lost? Because of bickering and
not doing what was best for the
town. Now the school building
will be used for something else.
My heart went out to the
citizens of Ehrhardt when the
school was closed, but sometimes
you have to make the best of
what you have left and in this
instance there was a newly
remodeled building that would
have made a great town hall and
there was plenty of room for
other uses as well.
I happen to love Bamberg
County, I have lived here all my
life and I plan to continue to do
so. This is my home and I can tell
that I know that they are good
people in all of our communities.
We have to stop all this bickering
and put what is best for the good
of our county first and foremost,
before it is too late, before the
next opportunity is lost
or we
will never be able to grow and
prosper like our surrounding
counties. Sometimes it is not
always who is right or wrong but
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Bob Madigan has been with WTOP Radio for 20 years. For most of that time, he has been covering the "Good" "Positive" news of Washington. Here is a chance to listen to some of his most recent pieces and you may even download if you wish. You can email Bob at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him on Twitter.
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Every degree jump on the thermometer takes it's toll in many homes as people strike out at each over with domestic abuse, physical and verbal abuse. That's why the annual partnership between Becky's Fund and the Washington Nationals Strike Out Domestic Violence Awareness Day was so on target the other night. Fans heard and saw public service announcements about the painful problem and how Becky's Fund can help those who are being abused.
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Size Vs. Strength: Are You Lifting Too Heavy?
I grew up with a love for bodybuilding, mostly because I spent much of my childhood in a dirty, stinky, dungeon-ish hardcore gym in Virginia. My mother, Faith Bevan, trained there when she was a competitive bodybuilder in the early 1980s. I would watch as she lifted alongside Washington Redskins players, WWF wrestlers like the Ultimate Warrior, and lots of pro bodybuilders. I used to tell the other kids at my elementary school, "My mom could beat up your dad."
With that kind of history, it was natural that I made working with bodybuilders and physique athletes a point of emphasis when I later became a trainer. I also developed an eye for what made hypertrophy training unique and different from, say, powerlifting, or training football players and other athletes.
Unfortunately, I've seen countless bodybuilders in the ensuing years who don't seem to understand where their training style begins and other styles end.
I've already gone over some of the common errors I see bodybuilders making, but now I want to talk about something more specific: confusing training for size with and training for strength. Now, of course the two aren't mutually exclusive. If you train for size, you will get stronger.
That said, I'm not writing this article for athletes looking to improve their "go." The tips here are intended to help experienced lifters improve their "show," either on the stage or at the beach.
Now that we're on the same page, let's get serious about building muscle.
In simple terms, strength is about increasing force production. Size, on the other hand, is about getting a pump and creating microscopic damage to the muscle, which then causes it to repair and grow larger. This is hypertrophy in a nutshell.
The general rule of thumb when training for strength is that the reps should be low and the resistance load should be high. Also, true low-rep strength work is primarily neuromuscular. If you think of your body as a computer, strength training is more about upgrading your software, which is your central nervous system (CNS), than it is about the hardware—your muscles. Strength training is about teaching your CNS how to bring more muscle into the game; or to increase motor unit recruitment.
Unlike strength training, the goal of training for size is more physiological than it is neurological. It's about upgrading your body's hardware, like bones, connective tissues, and muscles. You literally build your body, forcing the tissues to develop and grow stronger.
After what I just said, this may come as a surprise, but I believe that there is a place for some low-rep power work in a well-rounded bodybuilding program.
Physique athletes, like any other type of athlete, can benefit from increased motor unit recruitment, so I put some low-rep/high-load work in my physique athletes' programs, to the order of 5-6 sets of 4-6 reps. That said, we spend the predominant amount of our training time in the range of 3-5 sets of 8-15 reps, which has repeatedly been shown to be more directed at stimulating structural hypertrophy.
As I said earlier, it's not like you're totally missing out on strength development by training for hypertrophy. All types of training can have neurological benefits. But your goal with our bodybuilding program is to create maximum structural change, not neurological change. So if that's your goal, don't leave mass on the table!
At any given time at any big-box gym, you'll see at least one guy doing biceps curls where he has to throw his lower back into it each time he brings the weight up. Not far away, there's the dude doing back squats so heavy, he can't go near parallel. If you don't see that dude at your gym, it may be because he's you.
It's easy to make this mistake. After all, you're in the gym to lift weights, right? Well, sort of. Bodybuilding is not about becoming a "weightlifter." It's about using weights as a tool to increase your muscle size. Throwing as much weight on the bar, whether to boost your ego and impress the people around you, uses the wrong tool for the job.
When you go too heavy, here's what happens:
- You reduce the time under tension, because you're forced to use momentum to cheat.
- You're unable to lower the weight in a slow, controlled manner, further reducing your time under tension.
- You're unable to focus on the muscles being worked because you have to struggle just to get the weight up.
- You utilize more muscles, which reduces the accumulated pump in muscles you intend to target.
Allow me to burst your bubble: No one else in your gym cares how much you lift! And if they do, then they're just making the same mistakes you are, so you shouldn't care what they think. If you're unable to manage the weight you lift for sets of at least six controlled reps, you are more closely training for increased strength—and that's if you keep good form. Otherwise, it's just bad lifting, which won't make you stronger, and might end up injuring you.
Like any sport, bodybuilding is most effective when guided by overriding principles. If you're looking for the three-word version, here it is: time under tension.
If you want to improve muscle size, maximize your time under tension on every rep by:
- Using strict form.
- Utilizing controlled eccentric (lowering) movements of at least three seconds.
- Mentally focusing on the muscles being worked and squeezing those muscles at the peak of contraction.
- Avoiding fully locking out, so the muscles are under tension throughout the movement.
Does this mean that all cheating is off limits? Not necessarily. There are ways to cheat effectively while still using this system. But if you don't have the fundamentals down pat first, then you only cheat yourself.
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Great article. This made me realize just how much more important good form is, and the not locking out may be something I start doing for certain lifts. Anyway, would the 3-5 sets of 8-15 be effective for building mass for someone as scrawny as me? I've always had difficulty figuring out numbers that would work well.
forget about rep ranges. I was too focus on weight and range to see my progress. I was using a notebook and note everything. and everytime I wasn't training for my body. I was training to progress on numbers. But we don't care how much we lift. we care about what we looking. since the 9 april, I just throw my notebook and work on my muscle feeling and progress like this. That's it. I've droped my weights of 30-40% and now I contract, pump and squeeze my muscle. and it works
It's good to keep a variety of different workouts. I used to write down everything I did as well, and then one day I tossed that crap aside. I focused on the numbers too much, and if i was a powerlifter that would be just fine, but I'm not. Everyday I walk in and piece together a different workout off of feel. I personally like the higher rep ranges. Recently I've been in the 15, 15, 12, 10ish type sets. The biggest thing I notice (which is not the be all tell all, but matters to me) is when I do higher reps I am MUCH more sore the next few days. Obviously, like I said this is not the only thing that matters, but that does tell me is that I did some major muscle damage to myself (in the good way). If you're used to squatting or leg pressing for sets of 6-8 or 8-10 reps try doing sets of 15-20. I've never felt a burn and a swell in my legs until I did 4 sets of 20 on the leg press (when doing this my legs started burning around rep 12, so finishing to 20 hurt like hell and sometimes involved a pause or 2 at the top just to empty a little lactic acid in order to finish).
Really good points, thanks guys.
Writing down your numbers is something you should constantly be doing. If you're just at the gym to get a 6 pack, then don't. However, writing down your weights gives you solid evidence in your improvement. You shouldn't just try to one up yourself all the time if you're not ready, but pushing yourself to lift more than last week will help you get bigger, faster. It will also give you more motivation when you log your weights for 6 months and realize that you've increased your bench max by 50 lbs
Definitely took some notes reading this article. Applying it today at the gym.
Somebody tell Ronnie Coleman and Mariusz Pudzianowski they're doing it wrong. Don't forget the guy pictured deadlifting in this article. And didn't Charles Staley just publish something completely opposite of this. I gotta go with the empirical evidence. Get strong to get big.
no because Ronnie Coleman know how to train. they are professional and they know how to stimulate at 100% the muscle. and the guy perform the deadlift perform the movement for Strengh. that's it
Ronnie Coleman does a LOT of higher rep exercises. If you watch his workouts most of them are based around 10 rep exercises... If you watch him while he does his lunges he usually walks the full parking lot with 135 on his back. That being said, the man's a beast and can squat 800 lbs. without much of a struggle.
The main reason you don't see powerlifters doing high reps is obviously because they don't want to build a lot of extra muscle and gain weight or mass. They want to take their current muscular system and make that as strong as they possibly can.
Deadlift is most definitely not just for strength. It can build you anywhere from your traps down to your calves. Obviously if you're 1 repping 600 lbs it's probably for strength, but in general it's one of the best crossover exercises that will make you stronger and bigger at the same time.
That all being said... I don't want to jump on either side of this fence. A great bodybuilding routine is not set on either side either. You'll see the best of the best popping out 15-20 rep sets, and then the next week they may be doing 5 rep sets.
My advice.... do it all, do it well, reap the benefits.
I got no response for the kid, he needs more than I can give him online. But Mudvayne, you're right about all of it. You're just leaving out the part about Ronnie doing 15-20 reps with more weight than the kid above can 1RM. And especially the deadlift-traps connection. I don't post much but somebody needed to point out to the newbies that bench pressing 150lbs for sets of 10 reps isn't going to get you big. You gotta put weight on the bar before you start to really develop muscle.
Yeah I hear ya... you definitely can use good heavy weight to stimulate muscle growth obviously. A lot of people go through the motions, which sucks unfortunately. They're used to doing bench presses with a set of 12 then 10 then 8 then 6 and they never struggle with any of it. The results don't come and they wonder why. Bench press is obviously a good exercise for chest, but it's also going to work your delts, your triceps, and even your lats/traps as stabilizers. If you want to grow to where you want... you want your chest to always take the brunt on a chest workout. Personally I like doing tons of fly exercises, cable crossovers, dumbbell pullovers (focusing on chest contraction) before I get anywhere near the big press movements. By the time I get there I'm so swollen I can barely rep out 50 lb. dumbbells.... which is great because I've already isolated and wrecked my chest muscles.... now it's time to deliver the final blow with some incline/decline/flat presses. I've never felt DOMS like I do using it and I love it. Kai Greene uses a lot of pre-exhaustion exercises to from what I've read and seen. That's the best way to grow the individual muscle groups and then string them all together in my opinion.
Same with legs... I like doing leg curls and leg extensions before I go near squats/leg presses/stiff deads. It makes me look a lot weaker than I am to some people (not that it matters) because I'll be squatting 135 for sets of 15 and struggling to finish, but the fatigue and destruction it causes my muscles is awesome. If somebody is looking for something new to fix a plateau I highly recommend pre-exhaustion work!
You know pre-exhaustion is a technique I've never used. Glad to hear it's working for you. It's got no place in my program now but I'm due to switch here soon so I'll look to incorporate it.
Just lift, progress and keep good form. That is it. Simple gets it done folks.
"Everybody want to get big but nobody want to lift no heavy-*** weight" -Ronnie Coleman
Fair points about strength vs. appearance training. I still think bodybuilding is a beauty contest and not a sport compared to any contest of strength. I'd hate to look like Mr. Olympia and get out-lifted by a 50-kg athlete that can put Mr. O's bodyweight overhead in a snatch for a set of 5. Function is all that matters. You bodybuilders can go argue over who's the prettiest.
You do realize that you just made that post on a website named bodybuilding...? I don't even have words.
great article! love it! so trueeee, i use alot of what he speaks of , the good and the bad!
One day people will work it out. It isn't how many reps you do; it is your genetics. There is no magic number of reps that make you strong and where one or two more make you big. Now how stupid does that sound. My advice to achieve your genetic potential, is to employ effort. Heavier weight means less reps, lighter weight means more reps but the point is, keep doing reps till you can't do another one. I know people say this is wrong but they are wrong. Look at it in terms of homeostasis. If you are hot, your body sweats to cool you down. If you are cool, your body shivers to warm you up. Your body wants to keep you within a comfortable band. If you want to change you current muscular and strength limit, you have to lift to a point where you are uncomfortable. This is what sends a message to your body to adapt; to allow it once more to sit in a comfort band.
Good stuff. Thanks for the article. This should help me reach my goals.
Good article, But I see no reason not to go for both at the same time... I'm no pro/amateur training to get on stage, nor do I really care to be. Strength training for the 3 main power lifts and some bicep curling followed by high volume hypertrophy. Then just isolate every other muscle as you normally would body building. Nice body functionality/strength is what its about for me.
Great article, really hits it home on increasing size! Everyone on Bodybuilding.com should read this article and utilize it in their workouts, no matter what your exercise goals are!
God bless,
If used correctly cheating can be very beneficial for muscle growth. Curls for example, after reaching failure cheat the weight up and control the negative to further break down the muscle. You will find that your muscles are generally always stronger during the negative portion of a rep. Its good to have a workout partner for some exercises to help you get the weight up so you can control the negative after a set.
Ill go with that!!
I would only like to add be very careful "cheating the weight up", For example in a bicep curl the added stress by straining the weight up; on your back could definitely lead to injury. There are other ways to CHEAT the system (lol). Maybe incorporate dropsets at failure, or rest-pause reps. These allow you to further fatigue the muscle and add volume to your work! I might add that they may be much safer than forcing a heavy weight up after failure!
Just what I needed. Thank you for further informing me.
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Take Two for November 16, 2012
Friday Flashback: Obama speaks, Hostess dies, Fiscal Cliff looms
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US President Barack Obama speaks during Veterans' Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery November 11, 2012 in Arlington, Virginia.
A roundup of this week's biggest stories with Jim Rainey, political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and David Gura, reporter from the Marketplace Washington Bureau.
Petraeus/Broadwell/Allen/Kelley affair
Obama's first press conference since reelection
The Fiscal Cliff
Mitt Romney, post-election
Hostess closes amid union strike
The US Postal Service is bleeding
BP fined $4.5 billion for Gulf oil spill


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Friday, October 13, 2006
One-Stop Popping: Beck's "The Information"
Beck Hansen is the most greatest musical chameleon since David Bowie (or maybe Madonna, but Beck & Bowie have much better songs.) Just as Bowie spent the 1970s whorishly hop from Cabaret to Bauhaus to Philly Soul (hey, who didn't), Beck tries on genres like overalls and mixes them up like Ovaltine. Mutations and Sea Change leaned heavily on Beck's gifts as a singer-songwriter. But his most recent albums Guero and the new The Information are brilliant Beck Bouillabaisse in the tradition of Mellow Gold and Odelay.
Nausea, the first single, throws down a heavy funk beat over a Delta Blues guitar line and a punk delivery. The above video (available on a bonus DVD with the CD), is lip-synced by a band of look-alike marionettes. In this day and age, no one has time to listen to a James Brown, Skip James or X record in its entirety, much less watch an episode of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Beck is kind enough to give them to you all at once. God bless him.
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Who is contributing to the candidates?By Bill McCarthy
Whether you believe contributors to political campaigns are looking for good government or influence, we are usually confined to analyzing lists of names and numbers when we think about the issue.
So when we saw that Niki Bornes at Colorado based CleanSlateNow.org created word clouds showing contributors to Colorado's congressional candidates, we had to steal the idea for Wyoming.
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text. We took the data showing the top 100 contributors to each member of the Wyoming delegation, as well as to each presidential candidate, and distilled it to the contributor's name and total contribution. We then ran it through Wordle's advanced program.
Sen. John Barrasso and U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis are running for reelection Nov. 6. Both are Republicans.
Their Democratic opponents, Albany County Commissioner Tim Chesnut for the Senate and Casper College professor Chris Henrichsen for U.S. House, have no official publicly-available records as of yet.
The fossil fuels industry dominates the list of contributors for Barrasso and Lummis.
Sen. Mike Enzi, also a Republican, is not up for reelection this November. Still we thought it would be interesting to look at his contributors, as well.
Enzi is the ranking member on the Senate Health, Education Labor and Pensions Committee and potentially the chairman if the Republicans gain a majority in the Senate.
His top contributors are in the health care and fossil fuel industries.
President Barack Obama has raised $320,327 in Wyoming while Cowboy State supporters have donated $886,315 to Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign.
John McQuillan of Jackson donated $30,000 to Romney's presidential campaign. His name dominates the word cloud since the next highest donations are for $5,000.
Larissa Sneider of Evanston leads the Obama donors with a $5,000 contribution.
Bill McCarthy is a freelance journalist who lives in Cheyenne.
Obama's top donors: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/search.php?cid=N00009638&name=%28all%29&employ=&cycle=2012&state=WY&zip=&amt=a&sort=A&page=1
Romney's top donors: http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/search.php?cid=N00000286&name=%28all%29&employ=&cycle=2012&state=WY&zip=&amt=a&sort=A&page=1
Barrasso's source data: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00006236&cycle=2012&type=I&newMem=N&recs=100
Lummis source data: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00029788&cycle=2012&type=I&newMem=N&recs=100
Enzi source data: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00006249&cycle=2012&type=I&newMem=N&recs=100
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Retail Opportunities
The word is spreading, and Hope Seeds is becoming more and more popular with growers and gardeners across the continent. Demand for our unique and excellent selection of garden seeds is increasing rapidly, and we just can't keep it all to ourselves! Hope Seeds is happy to offer the opportunity to you to have our products in your store, garden centre or farm market stall.
How does it work? Hope Seeds has gorgeous custom-made wooden display cases (made by Fallsbrook Woodworking - the other business on the farm) that hold 30 different varieties of seeds. Each peg can hold up to 10 each of the 30 varieties, yet we work with you to determine a suitable starting number for your stand. In the first season, you buy the stand and it is yours for seasons to come. We then fill the stand with either YOUR CHOICE, our BEST SELLERS, all ORGANICS, all FLOWERS, all VEGGIES, etc. - we're flexible to your preferences!
You get a wholesale discount of 25% off the retail price per pack (plus tax). As you go through the season (generally February to end-June), you can restock your big sellers, or switch varieties to accommodate your customer choices. At the end of the season (by July 31) you have the option to return up to half of your seed order for a full refund or credit to your account. Essentially, this means you commit to purchasing 50% of the seeds up front.
Thinking about it? Don't hesitate to contact us today with any questions or ideas! We're interested in working with YOU to find the arrangement that meets your needs.
For a list of our current retail locations, click here.