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This story was originally published in the April/May 2013 Issue of Chattanooga Magazine.
This May evening is enhanced by a golden sunset, balmy temperatures and the hum of quiet conversation as the crowd at ℹ Miller Plaza waits for the first outdoor musical performance of the season. ℹ Nightfall 2013 has come. With a free Friday night show every weekend throughout the summer, it's a serial event Chattanogans look forward to attending. Easy, comfortable, frugal and entertaining. Could it be any better?
That's a question the crew at Chattanooga Presents! asks themselves, deliberately, with every new season. It's their job- how to make better entertainment, and create community in the process. And, it doesn't stop with Nightfall.
Often people come to us and ask, "How can we make it better?" says Carla Pritchard, owner and president of Chattanooga Presents!, an event and performance production company in its third year. Now, even nonprofits may retain the company's skills to jazz up a stale fundraiser or to produce something entirely new.
The company is made up of Pritchard along with Ann Ball and Johnathan Susman. Their connections run deep, having produced events over the years that have become community highlights.
"We were fortunate to have a few signature events left from the Chattanooga Downtown Partnership," says Ball, event producer. In addition to Nightfall, ℹ The Grand Illumination, an annual holiday lights event and the 3-Sisters Bluegrass Festival on the riverfront, are among the more popular activities. "We were glad to have those under our belt before we were presented with RiverRocks." The company will produce the third annual RiverRocks 10-day outdoor festival this fall.
Pritchard and Ball were previously with the Downtown Partnership, which was an organization created to enliven the city center, back when the ℹ Tennessee Aquarium was first built.
"There just wasn't anything down there, says Pritchard. "We started Nightfall with the intention of drawing people back to the downtown and giving it a sense of community."
Chattanooga Presents! recently produced Taste, the annual Kidney Foundation party that had formerly been a luncheon event called Taste of Chattanooga. It was, according to the Foundation's Jennifer McGlohan, a huge success, raising much needed revenue so the Foundation could continue their efforts to help those affected by kidney disease.
"They helped us with several logistical responsibilities, which allowed us to focus on our mission to provide help and information to those affected by kidney disease," says McGlohan. "Chattanooga Presents! developed the layout and flow of the event, which worked much better than last year."
Music tourism has grown in the South and it changes from year to year. Susman who is marketing coordinator for Chattanooga Presents! also is the founder of the Chattanooga Music Council. A native of Chattanooga, Susman worked in music industry in Nashville before coming back to his hometown. The council was instrumental in bringing Scenic City Roots to town. The show recently took place at the popular venue, Track 29. "It's nice to have people to work with that will go a bit out of their comfort zone to try something new," says Susman.
Recently the Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) made a special request of the company. There was a successful 22-year-old traditional jazz festival in Chattanooga that was about to be orphaned. Owners Mike and Astrid Griffin were retiring and there was no one step in and take over. The CVB didn't want to lose such a phenomenally popular event, although few in Chattanooga had heard of the festival, the intrepid staff of Chattanooga Presents! agreed to take it on.
"The patrons are extremely loyal to it," remarks Pritchard, wide-eyed. "We get e-mails thanking us and reminding us to put them at the Jelly Roll Martin table where they've always sat." They plan to expand the festival by adding days, different types of jazz and other venues to the schedule. Typically held at the Choo-Choo, they will brand it in a fresh way and make it more locally inclusive, too.
The broad range of events generated in the city may seem to stretch the talents and resources of the small business, but like most small businesses, this company relies on partnerships and strong relationships with a variety of organizations. Pritchard, Ball and Susman work closely with foundations, professional groups and sports and arts committees to orchestrate a colorful variety of events, blending cultural activities into Chattanooga's manufacturing and technology spheres. "The cultural scene must jive with the industrial scene," says Susman, thoughtfully.
They are currently planning website coordination for the upcoming Spark Festival, a clustering of arts activities happening at various places around town, and including for the first time, the bi-annual Southern Lit Celebration, once known as the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Conference. Spark also includes the ℹ 4 Bridges Festival for the visual arts, held at Finely Stadium.
At summers' end RiverRocks, funded by Mike and Stormy McGauley, will include a big block party, near the new climbing wall, arranged by Chattanooga Presents!. There will still be all the favorite competitions-and don't forget the hot air balloons. It is celebration of the outdoor life that Chattanoogans enjoy and are agreeable to share with the world.
Aside from everything else on the horizon for the company, they are moving to new offices this spring. Pritchard and her husband Ken purchased The Clearstory building on Main Street in 2008 and have redesigned and refurbished the inside to house Chattanooga Presents! during phase one of the project. They expect to include retail and residential opportunities in the 30,000-square-foot former warehouse eventually.
"We are excited about the growth in our company and entertainment for the city," says Pritchard. "And, we're happy to be a part of the energy on Main Street."
Visit www.chattanoogapresents.com for more information.
Photography by Brad Cansler and courtesy of Chattanooga Presents!


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Medical questions & health advice by board certified doctors
"I had high micro albumin-creatinine levels in urine. Is this indicative of a problem? "
elevated microalbumin levels (7x from normal cutoff) in urine but normal protein levels (creatinine, albumin etc) in blood. is this indicative of a problem?
Elevated microalbumin levels in the urine indicate that your kidneys are leaking protein. There are many conditions that can cause this, and for all of these it is really important to speak to your doctor about this result. The most common causes of elevated protein in the urine is diabetes or high blood pressure (hypertension). If you have these conditions and now have protein in the urine, that suggests that these conditions may be causing damage to your kidneys. Since your creatinine is normal right now it suggests that your kidneys are functioning well, but over time these conditions can cause irreversible damage to the kidneys. If you have diabetes or hypertension, it is important to speak with your doctor about controlling them and making sure that you are the best medical regimen to protect your kidneys. Certain blood disorders can cause your body to make too much protein which then gets secreted into the urine. These disorders can include some blood cancers (multiple myeloma and some lymphomas) as well as a condition called amyloidosis. There are also some disorders of the kidneys themselves that can cause them to leak proteins and would also cause other abnormalities in your urine that can be detected by looking at it under the microscope. Finally, elevated protein in the urine can sometimes be caused by heart disease, and can be an early sign that you need to make sure your cholesterol and other cardiac risk factors are being treated. That being said, there are also some benign causes of elevated urine protein, including vigorous exercise and a condition called 'postural proteinuria' which means your kidneys leak proteins depending on your position. Some people will also intermittently leak protein without it meaning that anything is wrong with their kidneys. Because the list of possibilities is broad, and because some of them are quite serious, it is really important that you discuss this with your doctor. Having an abnormal test result can be scary, but as I mentioned it is possible that the result in your case is either totally normal or a chance to treat other conditions early before they progress. I would start by talking with your primary care doctor, who can start the work-up and decide whether you need further referral to a specialist.
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MANVILLE, NJ - Valairco Heating and Cooling is celebrating 50 years of serving the central New Jersey area and beyond. Kevin McHugh, owner and third generation of this family run business, takes pride in a job well done and Valairco's commitment to providing the best value around through stellar workmanship, industry leading warranties, and affordable prices and maintenance packages. McHugh was instrumental in forging Valairco with innovative customer programs to meet 21st century needs.
McHugh is the nephew of Valairco founder Richard Valenti. He is a resident of Berkeley Heights and Gov. Livingston High School alumnus and graduate of Somerset Technical Institute. He has been working in the family business since his summer apprentice days and took a full time role in 1988.
Valairco was founded 50 years ago by Richard Valenti with the help of his father Joseph, who is credited with developing some of the basic methodologies and fundamentals of the air conditioning industry.
As a young engineer, Joseph worked with Dr. Willis Carrier, who invented the first modern air-conditioning system that debuted at the Rivoli Theater in Times Square in 1925. In the 1930's, air conditioning spread to department stores, offices and slowly to residential homes. Joseph was a graduate of The Cooper Union with a Mechanical Engineering Degree, and at that time, there were less than 100 people in the entire air conditioning industry, said Richard.
Richard grew up around the industry, graduated Summit High School and received his Civil Engineering degree from Newark College of Engineering [NJIT]. He worked as a systems engineer. In the 1960s, with only 10 percent of the residential air conditioning market saturated, Richard recognized the opportunity in the communities closer to his Berkeley Heights home.
In the beginning, Joseph was the design engineer, Richard was the sales engineer, and a third person handled the production and service. They grew to be a leader in residential and small business HVAC -- known for taking pride in a job well done. Their customers' reviews are a testament to their satisfaction. "We've been honored as a Best of Home Advisor winner in 2018 and as an Angie's List Super Service Award Winner three years running," said Richard.
Many satisfied customers measure Valairco's success through their industry-leading warranties, affordable pricing and maintenance packages. "Our Comfort Plus Guarantee on new installations gives customers peace of mind with a five-year warranty on parts and labor and the option to extend it an additional five years at a reasonable rate," said McHugh.
Although Richard, now 80 years old, has passed the torch to McHugh, he maintains an active daily role in the business. Visit the Valairco website or call 855-661-3300 to learn more about their services and Exclusive Comfort Plus Warranty Program.


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Earlier today, Search Engine Land posted about a new label that Google appears to be testing in its search results pages. The red "slow" label warns people that your site is unacceptably slow. This label isn't a trivial feature. If you care about performance, user experience, and SEO, then you should care about this potential game-changer.
Last fall, Twitter founder Ev Williams gave an excellent talk at XOXO* in which he nailed down what makes some online ventures succeed, and others fail:
Yes, your company needs to have rock-solid technology and excellent management, but if what you're offering doesn't somehow make your users' lives easier, then it will fail. So, how do we define convenience? According to Williams:
It's a well-known fact that site speed is a critical ranking factor for organic search. One of the most-asked questions I receive is: How exactly does Google do this? Over the last year and a bit, I've done quite a bit of digging to get the answers. I thought it would be useful to start an FAQ-style repository for the answers.
Almost half of the top 1000 retail websites don't follow two easy performance best practices. Does yours?
Keep-alives and compression are two of the easiest, lowest-hanging fruit on the performance optimization tree, yet almost half of the leading retail websites aren't taking advantage of these best practices simultaneously. How to identify and fix this problem on your site.
This past Wednesday, I had the great privilege of hanging out with the New York Web Performance Meetup crowd, and doing a session on web performance automation. Here's the slide deck and an overview of the session highlights.
The folks at Google are the only people I've met who have a clearly stated web performance goal: all pages on their sites will load in 100 ms or less. How fast do you want your site to load? And how committed are you to getting there?
Updating my performance stats "cheat sheet" with brand-new data from Gomez and old-ish data from Forrester.
Google Instant is going to fundamentally change how people search. Eventually, page 2 search results are going to be irrelevant. Page 1 will be the new bar. The companies that hit that bar will be the companies that are ready to squeeze every last ounce of performance from their sites.
Web performance consulting: What is it? Is it worthwhile? How do you find a good consultant? I decided to take these questions directly to one of today's leading performance consultants, Andrew King.
What I clicked this week.


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Thursday, January 21, 2010
High Stakes Basketball Has Arrived
3 comments:
- Dodge Taylor said...
Team's still available at this stage JR ... this has your name written all over it.
- January 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- KeysyinChina said...
Will we see the JR 3pt killer comp being played at half time? Maybe a bit of half court winner takes all elimination? About time we moved these quality parts of the basketball game out of the training court and into prime time. Not.
Just when you thought basketball in Australia had hit rock bottom... So now we have to resort to cheap gimmicks. Embarrasing. Biggest load of crap ive ever seen in my life. Will prob work though. Sporting fans can be so fickle.
- January 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- K47 said...
From what i've read so far, "KeysyinChina" sums up my thoughts well.
All the talk about improving the spectacle of the sport.. rubbish.
The on-court performance of the NBL is great, and good enough for all non-slamball, 7s Rugby, 20-20 Cricket loving "sport" fans.
What next?
25metre sprint? PGA 9-Hole Putt Putt Golf compelete with bonus point for blind folded shots.
If NBL players cant/dont play and th general FTA public have to watch ABA quality games all whilst its being hyped up as the next big thing it could do more harm than good.
Hopefully if the on court talent is good it might be a stepping stone for getting the NBL back into mainstream.
- January 22, 2010 at 9:58 AM


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!! All (MSTies) hail for an event not seen since 1997 !!
The return to the MST3K Turkey Day Marathon
Visit http://www.mst3kturkeyday.com for more information.
From the site:
This streaming event will kick off on Thursday at 9 am PT / 12 noon ET on Thursday, November 28th Fans who have suggestions for episodes they'd like to see included are encouraged to tweet Joel (@JoelGHodgson) with their votes.


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Saturday, March 6, 2010
Work in Progress
23 comments:
Silke, it is GREAT---just let it simmer and then guide you.ReplyDelete
Almost everyone I know has a cold now; do take extra care of yourself. Seems these things have settled in and don't leave easily.
I am with Danial...can't wait to see how this turns out!!!
Hey Silke, I hope your cold goes away very quickly!ReplyDelete
This painting is looking very interesting so far - it is always a great surprise when the piece is finished and you see where you ended up at - I can't wait to see it at the end!
PS we are both sitting on 237 followers at the same time - how weird is that :D
Love that part of the painting - do show us the end result!!ReplyDelete
I am really looking forward to seeing how this piece turns out and hope you are feeling better soon. Those darn spring colds. Every time I leave a comment on your blog Winslow stares at me, he is doing a great job as comment moderator...Ramses too.:)ReplyDelete
I agree with Daniel -- can't wait to see what you do with it! I love this course you're on with your art.ReplyDelete
Sorry to hear you've been under the weather. Hope you feel better soon! ☺
It is wonderful. I bet they will look incredible together.ReplyDelete
I just recovered from a sinus infection. I missed being able to visit everyone as much too:)
This is intriguing, Silke. It draws you in and keeps your attention. It's always inspiring to see your work. Hope you're feeling better soon. Healing hugs. xxReplyDelete
EEEEEEK! These colors are divine!!! I can see these in a gallery with great light and white walls!!!! Silke I know I am biased cause I love all things spring colors, but, the life of these is amazing!!!! Keep it up and feel better dear. Plus, I can't find your address in my cluttery world, could you re-send it to me and Monday I will try to get you your painting off to you. Blessed days dear one. You can do anything!!!!ReplyDelete
Feel better soon, Silke! Catch up with us when you can! :) The new painting is looking quite lovely. TheresaReplyDelete
silke, i love this. it is one of my favorites. it actually looks complete already to me. her head reminds me of a brave woman with cancer (and we certainly know a few women who are nothing but brave). and i love how you have incorporated other faces.ReplyDelete
don't worry about visiting. enjoy your family and have fun. i;ll see you again after my own vacation.
Get feeling better, I to consider you one of my best blogging friends. It is good to know you are out there.ReplyDelete
Wishing you well again quickly!!ReplyDelete
Hi Silke, goodness I do hope that you start to feel better soon! I just got released again from the hospital, I guess just when I think I'm going to start to get better, I'm really not. But I'm hanging in there and very happy to be home again and to be able to be here to visit with you!ReplyDelete
Your painting is beautiful just the way it is now, all the faces, the colors, just so inspiring! But now I can't wait to see what you end up doing with this gorgeous piece of Art! You're so talented that I know it will be amazing!
I hope that you have a wonderful rest of your weekend! Get well soon!
Hugs and love...
Oh oh oh! I am going to comment like a teenager:ReplyDelete
I am so loving this! This is crazy tight! Awful wicked!
HAHAHAHA! I am learning this lingo very fast from my son's friends who come to our house and see me draw or paint. I am passing them on to you.
Have a great day Silke!
I like it as it is...hug, hugReplyDelete
Holy Moly Silke! Who are you??? A bundle of wonderful surprises, that's who! The texture in this is exciting...the colors ALIVE. WOW. This is such a thrill to watch an artist blossom. Your growth is off the charts. You're in the 200th percentile! It's as if you are just coming into yourself...discovering who you are.ReplyDelete
**happy squeals** Deb
so excited to see what emerges from this....i like it how it looks right now too!!!ReplyDelete
so hope you are getting to feeling better....surround yourself with your sweet, nurturing, little comforts!
sending love
Feel better! This is a gorgeous painting...amazing all those faces!ReplyDelete
oh Silke, she speaks to meReplyDelete
Das ist ein interessantes Bild. Ich ´mag wie du die Farben und die verschiedenen Lagen einsetzt.ReplyDelete
Hab einen schönen Sonntag.
Say WHAT? This is a work in progress? I'd say, my dear Silke, you are DONE! You have metamorphed yet again. After the rich finger play of your pastel work, I see your acyrlics look deeper, richer. Perhaps it's the fantastic layers and colors in the background. Maybe your colors are more vibrant. I can't quite pin it down, but you've evolved yet again, and these are absolutely wonderful! They FEEEEEEL like spring, don't they? They are celebratory. They are free and joyful! I love the other faces peeking out, not visible until you look deeper, and then the image shifts. Brilliant!ReplyDelete
Hope you feel better soon, dear.
ps. Your cookbook is a priceless heirloom! WOW
I'm with Bella on this one. I think your piece is absolutely stunning as it is right now! Beautiful! Feel better : )ReplyDelete
Wow just had a nice look around between the rhubarb pie and your art. Love your work just beautiful. Just found you...ReplyDelete


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Date: 04/25/2003
Writer: D'Lyn Ford
LAS CRUCES - Southern New Mexico residents J.B. Pruett and Jupe Means were honored for their leadership and contributions to the state's agricultural industry during a special annual awards ceremony Thursday at New Mexico State University's College of Agriculture and Home Economics.
NMSU President Jay Gogue and Jerry Schickedanz, the college's dean and chief administrative officer, presented the awards to supports, faculty and staff.
Pruett, a longtime university supporter and president of Northrise Corp., a Las Cruces-based construction and facilities development firm, received the New Mexico Outstanding Leadership Award.
"I have walked through the halls of this building many times and viewed portraits of those selected as outstanding leaders in New Mexico," Pruett said. "However, never in my wildest dreams did I ever consider that I might one day be selected to receive this award."
The 1962 NMSU graduate's positive contributions range from teaching as an animal science instructor to serving on the New Mexico Works Board of Directors. New Mexico Works, a joint program between NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service and the state Human Services Department's Income Support Division, provides training, education and job placement assistance for low-income participants in nine southern New Mexico counties.
Pruett has also served on the NMSU President's Associate Board of Directors, a voluntary group of individuals who contribute to the university and to its scholarship programs.
Means, a Grant County cattle rancher who has spent more than 80 years in the saddle, received the college's Philip J. Leyendecker Agriculturist of Distinction Award. The Leyendecker award is named for a leader and former dean who invested more than 30 years in improving NMSU and New Mexico agriculture.
Means has helped improve scholarship opportunities for the college, contributing to the Jupe Means Scholarship, Animal and Range Sciences Scholarship and several other scholarship programs. He has also been a decisive leader in educating the public about the college's range improvement programs.
Means, whose formal first name is Huling, runs the H-Y Ranch southeast of Mule Creek. He started riding when he was 3 and went on to be a championship polo player for the New Mexico Military Institute, a bronc buster and Cattleman of the Year.
"I was born in a cow pasture 87 yers ago in Van Horn, Texas," Means said. "When I was 3, we moved to the H-Y and I'm still in a cow pasture."
Members of the college's faculty and staff honored during Thursday's awards program were David Thompson, an associate professor in the entomology, plant pathology and weed science department, with the Distinguished Teaching Award, and Geno Picchioni, an assistant professor in the agronomy and horticulture department, Teaching Award of Merit recipient from the National Association of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture.
John Mexal, a professor in the agronomy and horticulture department, received the Distinguished Research Award. Natalie Goldberg, an Extension plant pathologist, was given the Distinguished Extension Award. The Distinguished Service Award went to John Harrington, an associate professor and superintendent of NMSU's Mora Research Center.
Curtis Owen, a research assistant at NMSU's Agricultural Science Center at Farmington, received the Classified Staff Award for his contributions to the college's field crop research.
© 2013 New Mexico State University Board of Regents
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Current state of knowledge on characterisation of farm animal genetic resources in Ethiopia
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Ethiopia has a large farm animal genetic diversity. The existence of this diversity is due in large part to its geographical location near the historical entry point of many livestock populations from Asia, its diverse topographic and climatic conditions, the huge livestock population size and the wide range in production systems. Livestock diversity in Ethiopia has suffered considerably due to the many wars, civil strife and cyclical famines. Growing transhumance and migrations in the lower altitude areas have resulted in massive interbreeding between traditionally isolated livestock populations. In the highlands, government sponsored crossbreeding programmes have severely compromised the sustenance of genetic diversity in indigenous livestock, especially cattle and poultry. Yet not much has been done to document the existing indigenous livestock breeds and the impacts of agricultural Development, increasing human populations and the booms and bursts in livestock population numbers associated with periodic good years and bad years. The national effort in Ethiopia towards systematic characterisation and documentation of livestock biodiversity has been negligible let alone planned interventions to curb the continuing threat of loss of genetic diversity. There is no national focal point to co-ordinate and monitor activities in characterisation, documentation and conservation of farm animal genetic resources in Ethiopia, and the two major sources of systematic information on characterization of Ethiopian AnGR are administered by international research institutions who have no functional links with any one national institution. This rather substantive national task therefore remains unattended for, and needs serious attention from researchers, policy makers and Development practitioners. There is a need to identify and mandate a national institution to be the focal point of such activities. This is indeed essential because, both inter-species and intra-species (between and within breeds) diversity provide better household livelihood security for the majority of rural and urban households. There is cause for concern on the low level of research and Development interest on the characterisation and conservation of farm animal genetic resources in this country.
AGROVOC Keywords
SubjectsCATTLE; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; NRM;
RegionsAFRICA; EAST AFRICA
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Great recipe for hand made baguette, rather than using a bread machine.
Preparation Time: about 25 minutes Cooking Time: about 25 minutes Resting Time: about 4 hours, 30 minutes
Tip for French Bread Baguette Recipes:
Baguettes are particularly crusty and light because they are cooked at extremely high temperatures and are vaporized. Even though domestic ovens can't go as high a real French bakery ovens, you can still make an excellent baguette, by remembering to put a bowl of water in the oven. And, of course by baking at a very high temperature.
Do you like whole wheat baguette recipes? Just use 1 cup White flour and 3 cups Whole Wheat flour!
- Yield
- 3 loafs
- 4 cups Flour
- 1 tbsp. Fast Rise Yeast
- 1/4 tsp. sugar
- 1-2 tsp. Salt
- 2 cups Warm Water
- Oil for bowl
- 1. Combine Sugar, Yeast and 1/4 cup of warm water (105-115 degrees) in a large bowl. Allow to sit until foamy. About 5 minutes. 2. In another bowl, mix together the flour and the salt. 3. Combine yeast mixture, the remaining warm water (1-3/4 cups), and half of the flour/salt mixture. Using your hands, mix until it forms a dough. Then, cover with a dish cloth and let sit at room temperature for 3 hours. It should triple in size. 4. Gently incorporate the rest of the flour/salt, using your hands. 5. Place on a lightly floured surface and knead for about 10 minutes. It should be supple and elastic when you stop kneading. 6. Cut dough into 3 parts and form each part into a long baguette and cut a slit in top lengthwise. Place on a baking sheet. Let sit for 20 minutes. 7. Preheat oven to 450°F. 8. Place a bowl of water in the oven. Bake baguettes for about 25 minutes (maybe less, depending on your loaf size/shape). Voilà!
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Nutritional Info
- Calories318
- Carbohydrates22 g(7%)
- Fat25 g(38%)
- Protein3 g(6%)
- Saturated Fat2 g(9%)
- Sodium184 mg(8%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat7 g
- Fiber1 g(4%)
- Monounsaturated Fat15 g


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Jess Productions Limited was the producer of the Oxted Beer & Music Festival in 2017. Before that, Jess Productions' (managing director), Sam Hasler, produced the Oxted Beer Festival in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Jess Productions had planned to produce an even better event in Master Park in 2018.
Last week, after launching our pre-registration page and announcing that tickets were going on sale on the 7th December, we received a letter from a firm of solicitors acting for free on behalf of the Oxted and Limpsfield Community Sports Association (OLCSA).
Amongst other things, this letter claimed that all rights in the Oxted Beer Festival/Oxted Beer and Music Festival (including the brand) are owned by OLCSA. The letter made clear that OLCSA may take legal action against Jess Productions if it organised its planned event in 2018.
Jess Productions took legal advice after receiving the letter, from a firm of solicitors specialising in the area of live events and branding. Jess Productions was advised it was in a strong position.
However, it is with much sadness that we have to inform you that the Oxted Beer and Music Festival 2018 has now been cancelled. We believe it would be irresponsible for Jess Productions to proceed with an event that could become subject to expensive litigation. In the worst case, legal action could lead to cancellation of the event after tickets have gone on sale. At the very least any legal action would involve a lot of time and cost meaning Jess Productions would have less time to deliver a great event and would be unable to make significant contributions to local causes*.
We are sorry to all those who have already pre-registered for tickets for 2018 and are overwhelmed with the number of people who clearly have faith in what we can deliver. However, we believe this is the only sensible course of action. We can confirm that email addresses for those pre-registering will not be stored.
Thank you to all the volunteers, sponsors and to everyone who has supported the Oxted Beer Festival and the Oxted Beer and Music Festival over the past four years. We are looking at other events for the future and hope to maybe bring something new and exciting to the people of Oxted and surrounding areas in 2019, but the past few months have been quite difficult so for now we are planning to just enjoy the festive season.
Best Wishes & Merry Christmas
Jess Productions & The Festival Management Team
*To date, Jess Productions has donated more than 75% of the profits from the 2017 Oxted Beer and Music Festival to a wide variety of local charities and good causes. These include: Master Park Charity, The Connathon, The Titsey Rotary Club, Oxted and Limpsfield Cricket Club, Multi Use Games Area (St Mary's School) - in conjunction with the Titsey Rotary Club, Oxted and District Football Club, Hurst Green Tennis Club, The True Adventure Indonisia Project, Edenbridge Rugby Football Club and Oxted Pre School.
Donations Made from funds raised at
Oxted Pre School
Jess Productions and the team are really pleased to have been able to support Oxted Pre-school with a donation from some of the funds raised at
Oxted Pre-school is a charity run pre-school, which has been operating for over 30 years in central Oxted. They believe that 2-4 year olds develop best when learning through play in a fun environment and as such we are really pleased to be able to help them with the purchase of new resources. They have already bought a fantastic den and a range of new trikes for the children to play with in their front outdoor space and are in the process of buying a new trampoline for their back playground. They are also using the donation to invest in a range of new books and puzzles to stimulate young imaginations.
If you would like to find out more about Oxted Pre-school, pop down during opening hours, Monday - Friday, 9.15am -2.45pm (term time) or visit their
Hurst Green Tennis Club
Hurst Green Tennis Club are currently looking to start up a junior section. In order to help them on their way a donation was made which will go towards the purchase of junior equipment for the kids to use.
We wish them well and what a great thing to be getting kids involved with sport! Please contact
Hurst Green Tennis Club
for more information.
The Connathon
Connie was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) when she was 4yrs old. By the age of 5 she had lost her hair, her mobility and was in constant pain due to side effects of high dose chemotherapy and steroids. It has been a challenging couple of years for her but she rebuilt and looked forward. She started running to give something back to the Marsden who treated her.
It isn't easy for her to run a mile - considering she couldn't even walk a mile a year ago but with her spirit and drive, she did it! Connie ran 12 miles over the holidays on separate occasions. On 17th Sept she did her 1.1 mile in Reigate, thus completing a half marathon. She is raising money for the Marsden as part of the George and the Giant Pledge team and we are very proud to have helped a little with her sponsorship. The link to her page is:
The Connathon 2017
Titsey Rotary Club
Our fabulous Festival stewards who can be found welcoming everyone in and handing out our Festival glasses, also play a big part in distributing funds raised to lots of good local causes and projects.
One of the causes they are choosing to support from their tremendous efforts at
this year is a much needed Multi Use Games Area for Downsway and St Mary's School. Please click on this link
to find out more information about this great community project.
Edenbridge Rugby Football Club
A very popular funding choice amongst the volunteers this year. Edenbridge Rugby Club were invaluable at pouring thousands of pints of lager at our very busy craft lager bar!
ERFC have used the funds donated to provide much needed equipment for the huge junior section at the club. Click on this
if you would like to find out more about ERFC and for details on joining.
Master Park
The Festival is always keen to support our beautiful venue and to assist with the costs of the upkeep of the park. We were very pleased to be able to make a donation, on top of the rent paid for the venue hire, towards the upkeep of the playground facilities. Many people are not aware that Master Park is in fact a charity and relies heavily on donations for maintenance costs etc.
Please go to their
to find out more about their latest projects and check out their "Events Page" to see all the other fabulous events that go on during the summer months at our lovely Master Park in Oxted.
Oxted & District Football Club
Funds from the
event were used to completely reseed and fertilise the 1st team football pitch shortly before the start of the season this year. We must say it was looking very lovely and green at the start of September. The 1st team pitch takes a bit of a beating in the summer months and we were very happy to help give this ground a bit of nourishment! We wish ODFC good luck with this season.
If you would like to see how they are doing or for joining information please see their
Oxted & Limpsfield Cricket Club
Now cricketers, so we are told, have always enjoyed a pint of Beer and it would seem the OLCC are no exception! We have it on good authority that their party in the pavilion after beer festival has closed is really quite the place to be! ;-) Thanks to the volunteers who showed their support of OLCC by volunteering at
We have made a donation to OLCC from
and we are looking forward to hearing how they will be using this to benefit their club. For further information please visit their
True Adventure Indonesia
A group of teenagers from Oxted School spent their Saturday and Sunday mornings of Beerfest weekend cleaning the streets of Oxted in order to raise money for their community project in Indonesia. A week after
the teenagers set off for Indonesia with True Adventure Group and spent one of their weeks there working on a local community project.
Well done to all of you, you did a smashing clear up job!!
© 2019 - Jess Productions Limited.


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2017, goats, Hildegarde, Morisot, Widget
It's really quite hard to get good pictures of goats: they eat a lot, so there heads are mostly down in the grass, they jerk around a lot and they are always very interested in the black thing you are holding, so you get a lot of really big heads and noses.
I spent 20 minutes out there with them trying to get some good ones, but I still didn't get any of Morisot nursing. Bummer.
Top left is Hildegarde, (aren't her ears great? They flop all over when she runs too), the top right is Morisot grazing, the next down on the right is Widget and Morisot (can you tell they're mother an daughter?), bottom right is Hildegarde again and bottom left is Morisot (her eyes are the prettiest colors. The pupils are a very dark blue-black and right around them are a sort of aura of lighter blue, then the rest of her eye is a beige color).


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Detective Mike Tedesky has been housebound since the hunt for a serial arsonist left him severely burned and disfigured. Although healthy, away from the action, he has lost his purpose until a fateful decision to let a visitor in uproots his safety. Detective Nina Rossi visits him, determined to pull him out of his self-imposed prison to help her catch what could be the same man who destroyed him years ago.
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Step Rowe & Karen Hallford
Director and co-star Step Rowe has been credited as an actor, casting associate, acting coach, writer, and associate producer of projects in and around Central Texas. She has previously directed two music video shorts for non-profit youth organizations. "Tedesky" marks her first narrative short directing project.
Step is most known in the industry as an acting coach, so it is fitting that "Tedesky" was originally written as an acting exercise. It enjoyed many reads in acting class, but had never been produced. When William , Step's producing partner and husband, gave the green light to move forward in their plans to shoot a short film, he chose "Tedesky" for its intrigue and challenge. Long term friend and colleague, casting director Karen Hallford, approved the choice and came on board as Executive Producer and Co-Director.
Step Rowe was born in California, but grew up primarily in upstate New York. Her parents were originally from Ohio, but were stationed all over when her father joined the Air Force as a pilot. Two years before graduation, they were stationed in San Antonio, Texas and Step became acquainted with the University of Texas at Austin for its arts programs and to further her study. She earned her degree in Theatre from the UT Austin and went on to direct on-stage productions in high school, middle school and community theatre. She crossed over into film when she took a job as a casting assistant in the late 90s.
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(If you want a particular medium reviewed, feel free to send me an email or put it in the comments below - otherwise, I'll just keep going through the materials as I pull them out of my drawer.)
The price isn't too bad for the size of the sheet, although I'm skewed because of the shipping charges. But heck, I'm a hussy for carving mediums, I'll try anything ;)
My first thought when it arrived was to be taken aback at how thin it is. I'm so used to all of the other white materials that come out of Stampeaz's shop, that it never occurred to me that it would be any different... On to the review!
It's been a reeeeeally long time since I carved on Master Carve by Staedtler (discontinued), but this stuff feels and seems to be a thin slice of what I remember the Master Carve material to be like. The texture is obviously rubbery and almost... Marshmallow-y?
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Sigh. No heat transfer, but acetone works. This is not the first material to act like this and I would love an explanation as to why heat won't work to reattach the pigments to the rubber, but acetone can. Whyyy?
Crumble Factor:
I noticed while I was rubbing the acetone over the paper that the material was pilling where the cotton wiped the rubber. Not wonderful. Later, while inking, I noticed more pilling... no crumbling, but this stuff does pill up.
Okay, so while the big knife I used to cut through the material went fine, the Xacto blade didn't love to cut through the material. Also, what is tricky is that if I mis-sliced, in other words if I sliced too far away from the design, and needed to shave off a little extra, this was extremely difficult. I really had to make sure I sliced right in the first pass.
With a knife, it was quite hard to carve straight lines and make perfect corners - which, let's face it, is why you would want to carve with a knife in the first place.
It also dulled my knife very quickly. When dull, it dragged the rubber, leaving a ragged line and would veer the cut off course. The rubbery-ness of the material pull at the knife while slicing, so you have to really concentrate at making sure your cut is true.
While knife carving the text, the material broke out quite easily, which is nice. After a bit of rubbing of the text, I was fairly satisfied that the text wouldn't crumble off.
Gouge carving was a little nicer, and the material seemed to like that better. I think if I had a large piece that I needed to gouge carve, this would be the perfect material.
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Pretty good and even. Nothing to complain about here. However, if you click on the image and look carefully, you can see how uneven the lines of the bridge are (although from further away, I suppose it's fine).
While I like that it's generally soft, I prefer to knife carve these days and there is a pull when trying to slice that I don't like. It's fairly soft though, so I will happily use this slab up.


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I have bought tickets to see Stephen Merritt's Coraline and I am very excited. Very, very excited. Almost insufferably excited, in fact. You can go here to see what Betsy Bird at Fuse #8 has to say about the show. I do like the idea of the child Coraline being played by an adult, I must say.
My older son has been on a bit of a Neil Gaiman kick lately. He went from The Graveyard Book straight to Neverwhere. He asked if I thought there might be a sequel to The Graveyard Book and I said I doubted it because Bod would be an adult. "I'd still read it," he said. It made me think about the way we generalise about YA - that young readers want to read "up" in terms of age, but not too far up. The most recent Tim Wynne-Jones novel, The Uninvited is an interesting example of something that is categorized as Young Adult but is actually about adults (albeit young ones). It's also about the incest taboo, although I've yet to see that mentioned in reviews.


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It's always been this way…ever since I can remember, way, way back in the Greenwood Center days did I ever get that excited about Christmas. Now there were some kids who gnawed the last of the turkey ( chicken in our house) at Thanksgiving and had pencil in hand with their first note to Santa. We never gave it much thought until one weekend day my mother would suggest it might be a good idea to get a tree in "for the kids." My father was the Scrooge of all holidays…I know, I know he is not here to defend himself, but he would be the first to admit it. Grudgingly, he'd pull on his boots, knot them three times at the top, stick his feet in his snowshoes and then start searching for the axe. Since we lived in the forest, one would think he would have been happy to have such a selection of greenery from which to choose. We were lucky if he went fifty feet past the outhouse, chose the old maid of the forest and returned dragging it through the snow as to collect every flake on the limbs into one big white glob by the time he got it to the front steps. By the way, he was not singing carols in the five minutes it took him to complete this task. It is better you don't know. We knew the tree would have two boards nailed to the bottom, then nailed to the kitchen floor and two hanks of rope( to be replaced on the clothesline come spring) to tie the tree on each side to a railroad spike he probably stole from the track when out hunting. So now you can understand my mind and body's reluctance to accept any kind of Christmas spirit. We even took bets on how long it would take before one of the decorations caught on my father's sleeve to start another uproar. It was part of the joyous Christmas season and one we anticipated each year and thought nothing of it.
Meanwhile, my sainted Gram Martin stood for hours in her plaid house dress covered with an immaculately clean apron, cotton stockings and blue sneakers carefully cutting out cookies, putting exactly the same amount of raisin filling in each one, covering it with another, making little tine marks around each one in such a manner, one would think a machine had done if for her. She had knit our hats and mittens months before and she was set for the holidays. There were no big fireworks and no big to-do at the farm house, but it was a peaceful feeling with the cow in the barn( lowing as in all Sunday school stories) and probably talking to the pig at midnight. I have no idea.
So now let's fast forward six decades…one would think over a span of sixty years ( and more) that the Christmas spirit might make a move sometime before the 24th of the month. Never happened. Until yesterday. Sam (Tuxedo Cat) and I were having a spirited conversation about probably one of these nights he might try catching a mouse who now weighs fifty lbs from eating peanut butter off a trap. About that time the mail man came and there were cards. I sat at my desk, enjoying the notes and the sceneries on each and Sam looked up and said, "Forget the mouse. Let's bake cookies." I swear it was either Sam or the Devil. "No, too late in the day. My back is killing me and I can't handle it all today." ( cop out right there). "There are some you can put together and leave in the fridge over night and finish tomorrow." The cat wouldn't let up….
Forty minutes later, there was a lump of off- white dough in a green mixing bowl on the third shelf of the fridge. It was in the ecru range of color but looked about right for something that should taste like a sugar cookie. Fridge door shut; dough forgotten; bed time.
Do not, I repeat, do not look in the fridge for anything before you have your favorite beverage in the morning. The first thing I saw was that olive green bowl and the ecru colored dough. What was I thinking? Who on this planet wants to dig out a rolling pin and cut out little shapes ? Obviously I had experienced a lapse of judgment and given in to the cat/devil the day before.
Let's get this over with now and I can get on with the rest of the winter. Out comes the pastry board..oh, look, it is also a cutting board since my son was here prepping for the Food network. There's the rolling pin…waiting for the cobwebs to be removed and scrubbed down. Flour…have to have flour. Dough sticks without flour. Oh, the recipe says it should not stay in fridge over two hours…well I over looked that little item in my spurt of spirit yesterday and now I not only have dough, I have a bowling ball that could wipe out ten pins with no problem. Sip the tea…tap the dough..sip the tea..tap the dough. Can't let it get too soft. OH, what shape shall they be? We have every reindeer and the jolly man himself, name it Christmas and I have it in a cookie cutter. Do I want to really go through all this? Flour on the board…slap some dough, roll it out, sip the tea, …whoa, wait one minute…there is an interesting little cookie cutter right there…
My mind works in mysterious ways…one cookie cutter…one to wash…not a multitude of little crevices etc…hmmmm….and that is how I ended up with six dozen musical notes..each about two inches long. ….and about six cookie sheets more to wash than I should have.
No apron, floppy slippers, snarl on the lips, boy, Gram would be proud of me. Now that I have have my spurt of Christmas spirit, I can sit back, relax and figure out how to catch that fifty lb. mouse .


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Name: Gail
East TN (Zone 6b)
Nov 11, 2014 1:10 PM CST
|I live in the mountains of East TN, zone 7a. I planted two of these bushes this summer. How do I winterize them?
Nov 11, 2014 3:38 PM CST
|They should be pretty hardy for your zone, Gail, but it never hurts to mulch deeply all around a new plant for the first winter. Just don't use something that will pack or mat down too much to keep moisture from penetrating. Loose mulch like a good wood chip (available in bags at most garden centers) or leaves mixed with wood chips are usually great. The mulch acts as an insulator to keep the soil from freezing and thawing, and also maintains steady moisture levels.
If exceptionally cold weather is forecast, a foot of mulch is not overdoing it. Just be sure to rake most of it a few inches away from the plant's base in the spring. (mulch is good for summer, too, just not piled up around the plant as you do in winter)
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Name: Gail
East TN (Zone 6b)
Nov 11, 2014 3:49 PM CST
|Thanks. Do I need to cut back? I have several bags of pine bark mulch.
Nov 11, 2014 5:59 PM CST
|If the pine bark is in big chunks I'd definitely mix it with some leaves. Otherwise it allows a little too much air circulation and isn't quite as good an insulator as finer mulch.
I always waited on new bushes, and just pruned off any dead wood in the spring after the first little green leaf buds start showing.
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
Name: Gail
East TN (Zone 6b)
Nov 11, 2014 6:33 PM CST
|I only use fine pine bark mulch. After mulching, I'll leave the bushes as is without cutting back and look for new growth next spring.
Thanks again.
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So is OP offensive player?
I really liked last years decoding system. that involved:TDs 6 points (all types)Picks, fumbles0.1 points per rushing/receiving yard0.025 per passing yardNo bonuses of any kindfull point PPRIdk I think this one is too weird the sinplicitiy of the other one (no bonuses, TDs worth full value) made it good.
So it is a roster size of 31, 11 starters and 20 on the bench. The starting spots look like this.QBRBRBWRWRTEFlexFlexOPD/STKThe scoring system is like this but can be up for debate, I remember it was a little weird in some aspects but I'm happy to keep it as is. Our league from last year will be the exact same set up. The only difference will be commish rules on all trades, I will be happy to hear why stuff will be vetoed but my say will be final. I am happy to have 2 'deputy commissioners' that way if I am involved in a trade there is an unbiased party but we can decide that later.
If struggling for numbers I can get a mate to join in. I assume you want to prioritise people on FF Mat, just offering in case we need one more.
If we have an OP why not get a defensive player as well in the squad? Is there a reason why we need a 20 man bench each?
Sorry guys, I have been busy/sick this week so I haven't really been on to check. I got one of the guys from work to join but we still need one more owner before I can get a draft order going. I would have preferred to keep it to everyone on the board but that wasn't looking likely. I'll give it until Sunday night to get one more person of interest, if we don't have one we can get plumdogs brother if he is still interested. The secondary league looks like a no go since we only had two interested.


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Jan 22, 2011
ugly banana bread
Dec 22, 2010
day in the life of an MBA at Ross
Oct 27, 2010
crunchy granola
Really good granola costs anywhere from 4-7 dollars for a few servings at the store. But most of us actually have the ingredients for granola just sitting in the pantry. No extra cost. And, it's actually a really simple process to make granola.
Preheat oven to 350
2 cups oatmeal (any kind of oatmeal will do, just not the instant kind)
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
Mix it all together. Spread onto a baking sheet and bake for 10 min.
Then sprinkle on about 1/3 cup almonds. Bake for another 5-7 min.
Take out of oven, let it cool down for about 30 min and then break it up.
I like to mix in 1/2 cup of dried cranberries. Or mix in whatever you want. Enjoy!
Oct 12, 2010
i realize it's getting cold
but the back-to-school thing has me craving classic things like pb&j, except i have it in the form of ice cream.


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Charles Koppelman
|Business executive
|--Brenda "Bunny" Koppelman (until her death)
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|Ruth and Irving Koppelman
Charles Koppelman (born March 30, 1940) is a musician, music producer, and businessman. He has held executive positions at EMI and Steve Madden, and he is former Chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. He is currently CEO of CAK Entertainment.[1][2]
Early life[edit]
Koppelman was born to a Jewish family,[3] the son of Ruth[4] and Irving Koppelman.[5]
His uncle, Morris Koppelman, held a patent for inventing the egg carton.
Koppelman broke into the music business as a member of the musical group The Ivy Three which had a Top 10 hit in 1960 entitled "Yogi", after the cartoon Yogi Bear.[6][7] Soon, Koppelman and bandmate and future business partner Don Rubin joined the songwriting staff of Aldon Music under CEO Don Kirshner, a group that included Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil. When Columbia Pictures purchased Aldon Music, Koppelman was promoted to director of Screen Gems/Columbia Music, the new company that resulted from the merger. In 1965, with financial backing of his uncle, Leon Koppelman, Koppelman and Rubin left Columbia to form Koppelman/Rubin Associates, an entertainment company that signed The Lovin Spoonful the same year. In 1967, Koppleman/Rubin signed The Little Bits of Sound a group from Long Island, New York with a psychedelic sound. In 1968, Commonwealth United purchased Koppelman/Rubin Associates and Koppelman and Rubin stayed on to run the music division. In 1968 they signed the psychedelic band the Rahgoos and famously made the band change its name to Gandalf.[8] During the early 1970s, Koppelman moved on to CBS Records and held numerous positions, including Vice President/National Director of A&R where he signed acts including Billy Joel, Dave Mason, Janis Ian, Journey, and Phoebe Snow.[9]
By the mid-1970s, Koppelman had stepped up to Vice President/General Manager of worldwide publishing for CBS Records. In 1975, he formed The Entertainment Company with Martin Bandier and New York real estate developer and Bandier's father-in-law, Samuel LeFrak. The company independently administered and promoted song catalogs and produced music artists like Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, the Four Tops, and Cher.[9] By 1981 the Entertainment Company had grown into a production company with its own staff of producers and 20 in-house songwriters and in 1984, they purchased the Combine Music catalog of 25,000 country songs.[9] Around that time Koppelman's son, Brian Koppelman, then a student at Tufts University in Boston, discovered musician Tracy Chapman and brought her to his father who soon signed her to a record deal.[10]
In 1986, Koppelman, Bandier, and Stephen C. Swid formed SBK Entertainment World, Inc., in order to buy the 250,000 titles owned by CBS Songs for $125 million, the highest price ever paid for a music publishing portfolio. SBK developed into the largest independent music publisher in the world and played a major role in the careers of artists like Michael Bolton, Robbie Robertson, New Kids on the Block, Icehouse, Al B. Sure!, and Eric B. & Rakim.[9][7]
In 1989, SBK Entertainment World, Inc. was sold to EMI Music for $300 million. As part of the deal, Koppelman and Bandier formed a partnership with EMI Music Worldwide to create their own record label, SBK Records. In addition, Koppelman took the positions of Chairman and CEO of the new label and Chairman of EMI Music Publishing. Bandier received the posts of President and Chief Operating Officer of SBK Records and Vice Chairman of EMI Music Publishing. Only one year after SBK Records opened, they received their first platinum album with Technotronic's Pump Up the Jam. SBK Records went on to sign artists Jesus Jones, Wilson Phillips, and Vanilla Ice, among others. In 1991, Koppelman and Bandier sold their share of SBK Records to EMI Music, making EMI the sole owner of the label. When EMI Music decided to consolidate its operations and formed EMI Records Group North America, Koppelman was subsequently appointed Chairman and CEO. During his time at EMI, Koppelman played an integral role in the reunion of singer Frank Sinatra with Capitol Records, which spawned the five-million-selling album Duets.[9] Koppelman served as CEO until 1997.
From 2000 to 2004 Koppelman was Chairman of Steve Madden, Ltd.,[11] and led the company while Madden served jail time for securities fraud.[12]
In 2005, Koppelman was appointed Chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.[13] Koppelman also appeared as Martha Stewart's right-hand man on NBC's The Apprentice: Martha Stewart in 2005.[14] He served as de facto CEO of the Company from 2008-2011 when he stepped down to expand his company, CAK Entertainment.[15] Since 2010, Koppelman has served as director at Six Flags Entertainment Corporation[16] and also currently sits on the Board of Directors of Las Vegas Sands.[17]
In June 2014, Koppelman was appointed Chairman of Medient Studios Inc., replacing Manu Kumaran.[18]
CAK Entertainment, Inc.[edit]
Koppelman founded CAK Entertainment in 1997.[19] Along with general counsel David Fritz and Managing Director Stephanie Roberts, the company conducts marketing, brand development and advisory work for artists and companies including Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez (managing their apparel and lifestyle products line with Kohl's Department Stores), Adam Levine and Nicki Minaj (managing their apparel and lifestyle products lines with Kmart), country recording artist Clay Walker, car auctioneer, Barrett-Jackson, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Freehand Music.[20]
Personal life[edit]
Koppelman has been married twice. His first wife was Brenda "Bunny" Koppelman who was also Jewish; they had three children: Brian, Stacy and Jennifer. She died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.[21][22] On October 29, 2011, he married Gerri Kyhill Koppelman.[23]
His daughter, Jennifer Hutt is a radio personality who has hosted several radio shows including the popular Sirius Satellite Radio show Just Jenny.[24][25]
His son, Brian Koppelman, is a screenwriter whose credits include Rounders and Ocean's Thirteen.[26][27]
- ^ Paul Bond (4 November 2010). "Crown Media Reverses Losses in Q3". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ^ "Company Overview of CAK Entertainment, Inc". Bloomberg Businessweek. 2014-06-26.
- ^ "Bash Mitzvahs!". NYMag.com.
- ^ New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths KOPPELMAN, RUTH" July 22, 1997
- ^ New York Times: "Paid Notice: Deaths KOPPELMAN, IRVING" August 10, 2000
- ^ Sherry Beck Paprocki (2009). Martha Stewart: Lifestyle Entrepreneur. Infobase Publishing. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-60413-083-6. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ^ a b Roberts, Johnnie L. "A Breakout Act". Newsweek. Archived from the original on November 1, 2005.
- ^ Walton, Christian (22 November 2014). "Music-Drop Magazine: The 1960s Lost Psychedelic Band: Gandalf".
- ^ a b c d e Shelton, Sonya. "Charles Koppelman Biography". Musician's Guide. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ "100 best albums of the 80's". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "Charles A. Koppelman". Forbes.com.
- ^ "Indicted retailer yields chair". CNN. 2000-06-21.
- ^ "New chairman named for Martha Stewart Living". USAToday.com. 2005-06-17.
- ^ Johnnie L. Roberts (26 September 2005). "A Breakout Act". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 2005-11-01. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ^ Ovide, Shira (2011-07-29). "Don't Let the Million-Dollar Fees Hit You on the Way Out". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Executive Biography".
- ^ "Las Vegas Sands Corp. - Board of Directors". Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ^ MarketWired. COMTEX. Charles Koppelman Assumes Leadership of Medient Board. MarketWatch. The Wall Street Journal, 12 June 2014. Web. 19 June 2014. <http://www.marketwatch.com/story/charles-koppelman-assumes-leadership-of-medient-board-2014-06-12?reflink=MW_news_stmp
- ^ Furman, Phyllis. "Koppelman Tunes In Ousted Emi Honcho Forms New Company". New York: NY Daily News.
- ^ Fritz, David. "www.boyarskifritz.com/about-david-fritz". Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ The New York Times: "Brenda "Bunny" Koppelman Obituary" July 9, 2008
- ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths KOPPELMAN, BUNNY". The New York Times. 2008-07-11.
- ^ Quigley, Rachel. "Martha Stewart Insists on Nine Personal Assistants and Expensing Everything." San Francisco Sentinel. N.p., 1 Aug. 2011. Web. 19 June 2014. <http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=146184
- ^ Hutt, Jenny K. "About Jenny". Web log post. Just Jenny. Simply Amusing Designs, n.d. Web. 19 June 2014. <http://jenniferhutt.com/about-jenny/
- ^ Beck, Byron. "Stardar Report: Jennifer Hutt Is a Satellite Radio Star." Stardar Report: Jennifer Hutt Is a Satellite Radio Star. Www.byronbeck.com, 06 Mar. 2012. Web. 19 June 2014. <http://www.byronbeck.com/home/1081-stardar-report-jennifer-hutt-is-a-satellite-radio-star.html
- ^ "Brian Koppelman." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 19 June 2014.<https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002718/
- ^ New York Times: "Amy L. Levine Has Wedding" April 3, 1992


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My Thoughts & Scraps
Sunday, March 11, 2012
It's Spring & SMASH entry of Gables Run
I made this LO for Scrappin-n-Chattin's Scene challenge for this month. We were to include a picture of a scene in our LO. I chose my church's playground! The paper/pic mat is Me & My Big Ideas Sunshine, the ribbon is American Crafts Spring Ribbon, "It's Spring" is Basic Occasions Seasons Pack, Fun Times Ahead ticket is My Little Shoebox- I wrote "Broad Creek Christian Church playground", the Winnie Pooh sticker is Hallmark stickers, the little stickers are Sticko Lucy Lu, the flower is from my stash, the sentiment- "It's love that makes the world go round" is Creative Imginations, and the butterfly/flower square is also Basic Occasions Seasons Pack. I bought the MAMBI Sunshine Specialty pad from Michaels on clearance for $7.99 this past week and really wanted to scrap with it, so I did Thursday night while watching American Idol! I look forward to using more of this pad since it looks like I'll be going to the beach more this summer with Doug & Laura!
I made this entry Thursday afternoon. I was in a scrapping mood Thursday! :) The journaling block states that "I learned how to would love to learn how to: helped clean 16 stalls & learned to overlook smell, led Bella & Pirate from pasture to their stalls in the barn, drove UTB about 5ft from stall to stall to put dung in trailer connected to it, rode UTB with Laura in the woods to dump the dung & almost got stuck in the mud, got a sunburn on my back while watching Laura's riding lesson 2-29-12." The pics are inside of the barn. The pic on the right page is of "Bella waiting to be brushed and prepped for riding lesson." The journaling on the left page tells that "I had never been in a horse barn, so I decided to take pics. This is before the stalls were cleaned! Doug & Laura McGinnis work/live on Gables Run Equesterian Center. Laura takes riding lessons on Pirate & has a pony, Peanut. She also works at Lynnaire Kennels. Laura & I have become good friends. She asked me to watch her riding lesson & I ended up helping her clean stalls & spending most of the day with her. It will be a Leap Day I will never forget!" I was gonna tell of my concert highlights, too, but I'm tired and need to get to bed before I lose an hr of sleep! lol I will post about it soon! I need to get the pics developed that I took- 43 total! Well the ones on my cell phone I can't develop, but will figure out how to upload them to FB at least! TFL!
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He is accused of shooting the Indymedia journalist from a distance of 43 meter, from a height of 4 meters, with a 38 special revolver - in other words, cowardly gunning down Will from a long distance on top of a building.
Fantastic news if the true killer is indeed caught this time.
Presentan a presunto asesino de Brad Will. El Universal, May 24, 2012.


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A woman who describes herself as the ex-girlfriend of Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has filed a petition in Sedgwick County District Court for a Protection From Abuse order from Randle.
A woman who describes herself as the ex-girlfriend of Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has filed a petition in Sedgwick County District Court for a protection from abuse order against Randle, according to Kansas.com.
The woman alleges that Randle pointed a gun at her car and threatened to "blast the vehicle," in which her friend and her son (who is also Randle's son) were seated.
Randle was arrested for possession of marijuana on Tuesday after police responded to a report of a disturbance with a weapon at a hotel where Randle and the woman were staying. Randle was not cited for any domestic violence charges, but police said they were looking into the matter.
The possession charge was dropped by Wichita Police on Friday in order to allow police to "present any charges that result from the ongoing investigation to prosecutors at one time," according to the Associated Press.
From the petition for a protection order:
"The defendant became angry with me in the presence of our child," the woman wrote. "I told my friend to take our son out of the home. She got into the vehicle with my son in the passenger seat. The defendant walked to his vehicle and retrieved a handgun.
"He then proceeded to approach the vehicle and point the gun at my friend in the vehicle. He told me at this point that he was going to 'blast the vehicle.' My friend tried to cover up my child with her body. The defendant then smashed the window with his fist, causing glass to shatter across my friend and my child."
Police did not find a gun at the scene and said another person had left with it.
In her petition, the woman also alleged that Randle "has a history of being both physically and emotionally abusive towards me."
Randle played in all 16 games for the Cowboys in 2014, rushing for 343 yards and three touchdowns. He's the backup to offensive player of the year DeMarco Murray, who is a free agent this offseason.
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"What is baby-led weaning?" me daughter Sarah asked me.
"It's what I did with you, except there wasn't a name for it then," I told her. "I just popped some food on your high chair tray and you helped yourself."
"What? You mean, you didn't even FEED me?"
I laughed.
"Look at your baby photos -- I think somebody must have fed you." (She was a deliciously chubby bubba).
Sarah was our fourth baby. By then I had whole-heartedly embraced a philosophy of 'lazy parenting'. Or, as I liked to jokingly call it with her older siblings, 'benevolent neglect'.
With my first baby I had tried to follow 'the rules'. When he started solids the advice was to start off with baby cereal. So I bought a box. I squirted breast-milk onto the recommended teaspoon of cereal. I made it too runny so I added more cereal, then it was too thick so I squirted more breast milk, then it was runny again...
Eventually I had almost a bowl full of perfectly mixed cereal -- which my baby promptly spat out. Even though the cereal didn't work out, I still lovingly pureed fresh fruits and steamed vegetables, especially for him. It simply hadn't occurred to me that he could eat the same foods we were eating. That is until we were staying with my grandparents and my Poppa handed him a drumstick from the roast chicken. How that kid loved feeding himself! Aha -- no more fiddling and fussing with 'baby' food. Ever. Again.
As my babies grew, my approach was that it was my responsibility to provide healthy food and their choice whether to eat it or not. I didn't cook special meals -- hell, I'm not a short order cook. If you don't like it, leave it. If they didn't eat dinner, they could have something completely boring, like a vegemite sandwich, if they felt hungry later. No food fights, no power struggles about food and nobody seemed to go to bed hungry.
Food wasn't the only area that I embraced the theory of lazy parenting.
Sleep was another one I learned to relax about. First time around, we had spent hours restoring an antique cot, even tracking down a craftsman who made us a new matching brass knob to replace the missing one. I had crocheted fine woolen blankets and the whole thing looked divine. Except my baby wasn't overly impressed by our design skills, and after tucking him into his beautiful bed at least 10 times one night, I took him into bed with me.
He slept. Soundly.
Eventually he moved out into his own bed and subsequent babies moved in with us. By the third baby, I didn't even bother trying to put her in her cot at night. I didn't consider longer term benefits (sleep was the immediate priority) until one night when she was about three, I heard her patter to the toilet in the dark, all by herself and then she pattered back to her own bed. I had a light bulb moment -- none of our kids were scared of the dark. Of course they weren't because they had never been left alone at night, so they hadn't developed an association with night time being scary. Lazy parenting payoff.
Play is another aspect we can chill out about, too. At home we had a sandpit and I provided old sheets and fabric along with a bucket of clothes pegs and they pegged the fabric on low branches to make their own cubbies. Their favourite activity as tiny tots was 'painting the fence' with a house-sized paint brush and a shallow bucket of water (no mummy involvement necessary). Inside, I sat back and fed the baby in peace or had a HOT cuppa while they built roads all around the lounge room with blocks or made cubbies by draping sheets over chairs and the dining room table.
There is research to back up my lazy approach to play. Author Peter Gray, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Boston College, defines "free play" as play a child undertakes him- or herself and which is self-directed and an end in itself, rather than part of some organised activity. It is through play that children first learn how to make decisions, solve problems, exert self-control and follow rules.
As children negotiate both their physical and social environments through play, they can gain a sense of mastery over their world, Gray contends. "Children who do not have the opportunity to control their own actions, to make and follow through on their own decisions, to solve their own problems, and to learn how to follow rules in the course of play grow up feeling that they are not in control of their own lives and fate. They grow up feeling that they are dependent on luck and on the goodwill and whims of others."
As they grew, my kids did their fair share of 'negotiating'. However, unless somebody was being unkind or unfair, I took the 'lazy parenting' approach there as well.
Mostly they worked things out without interference from me. One day I was reading how a parenting expert had 'solved' his children's sibling squabbles over a game of mini golf by taking away the rules so there were no winners or losers. I was a bit surprised (I had thought it was important to learn how to lose graciously), so I asked one of my older kids if they had ever felt upset about being beaten in a game with siblings (they played board games together for hours).
He grinned and said: "I would have cheated if they were beating me."
So much for lazy parenting.
Pinky McKay is the author of four books on parenting and blogs at www.pinkymckay.com. She will appear at the Essential Baby & Toddler Show in Sydney on September 25-27. She is on Facebook here.


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The second of Steiner's Furies stories is just as good as the first, perhaps even better. While the first half of V for Vixens kept the reader guessing as to just what exactly was going on, Lightning War starts off strong with a bit of a "gotcha", and ends with an excellent action sequence.
In this second volume, The Furies take on a new member and at the same time, are assigned the task of eliminating a cell of German agents, all female, operating as intelligence gatherers in England. The first half of this story spends a good amount of time further developing the relationships between the Furies themselves (and that entails all sorts of relationships...), and I think Steiner does an excellent job of painting the women in vivid, but believable colors.
The second half of the story is the raid on the German cell. Talk about bloody, brutal, and cold - we can see these ladies are more than capable of dishing out violence in all forms, without pity or remorse. Steiner can certainly find his way around a gunfight, and I'm looking forward to more "Furious" action in the other books.


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In the Cold War, many leaders and conflicts that occurred in the war played the Game of international brinkmanship. The main purpose was to get the opponent intimidated because one wanted to dominant between Industrial Capitalism and Communism, which the Americans wanted to band. Threats with nuclear weapons and riots by millions were put into play. Many good examples of this were the leaders of the period throughout the Cold War.
Brinksmanship between Gorbachev and Reagan was a good example. The Soviet Union was stages of collapse and Gorbachev knew it, he worked to come to better terms with America and President Reagan has acknowledge that even though he saw no good of Gorbachev. Gorbachev's regime was primarily to decompose the oppressive Soviet Union. With his to initiatives, the glasnost and perestroika, he gave more freedom to the Russians and permitted Capitalism. Glasnost meant the dismantling of many of the repressive mechanisms that had been among the most conspicuous features of Soviets life, and perestroika was reform in the Soviet's lives.
Gorbachev decreased his foreign powers in East Europe as well. Gorbachev met with Reagan to lessen nuclear arms; however the result was a treaty that would take out all nuclear weapons. Gorbachev other decision was the cease of Afghanistan assaults. Their brinksmanship movement had took things from one point and created a better situation.
The brinksmanship between Kennedy and Khrushchev was the worsening and bettering of the situation. The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviet Union to stop the exodus that desired to move to the West of German. Tension had risen and culminated in the most dangerous and dramatic crisis of the Cold War. America intelligence agencies became aware of Soviet construction of nuclear weapons site with the help of aerial reconnaissance photos.


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Driver's license (New York)
Hi there.
Any clue on how to get a driver's license here in NYC? I've got my Italian license, but, as far as I know, it's not valid here because I've been here for more than three months.
I guess several people have gone through this before, so I thought I would write this post and get some advice.
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Shelter Appeal
To donate online please visit our CCLM donation page Here.
For over 25 years CCLM has served the vulnerable in San Bernardino, primarily through 70 shelter beds for homeless men. In order to continuing serving this population, it is imperative our shelter is brought up to code.
We have an opportunity to achieve this goal at a very reasonable cost. LSS is once again partnering with HomeAid, a leading nonprofit that builds and renovates shelters across America, to construct a brand new shelter on the open lot next to the mission.
There will still be 70 beds, along with showers and bathroom facilities. This is the first phase of a long-range plan to provide supportive housing. We are scheduled to break ground in Fall 2017, with a target completion date of late Spring, 2018.
In the meantime, we will continue to provide community services like the classes we offer, thrift store, and after-school homework assistance program, in support of the worshipping community.
The Lutheran community has been a vital part of CCLM's past, and now we need your continued support to ensure its future. We only need $150,000 to reach our goal.
If every congregation pledges $500, $10 a week, by the end of this year we will reach our goal of $150,000. Please share the CCLM story with your family and network, and prayerfully consider our request.
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Non-residents working on the UK continental shelf: self assessment and appeals: no return made
If a company fails to deliver a company tax return in response to a notice to file, HMRC may determine the amount of tax payable by the company to the best of their information and belief.
Once the determination is made it creates a legal charge in the same way as a company's self- assessment. The company has no right of appeal against a determination, but the determination may be superseded if the company makes a company tax return, provided the return is delivered to HMRC not later than the time limit for making a determination. The time limit is 5 years after the earliest date on which the determination can be made, or 12 months from the date of determination, if later. This ensures that companies will always have at least 12 months to displace a determination.
Before making and issuing a determination, HMRC will consider all the known facts regarding the contractor. Where possible, HMRC will seek to ensure that the Contractor is fully aware of his obligations to comply with UK tax requirements, including the possible consequences of failure to reply to enquiries.
If tax charged on a determination is not paid when due it may be necessary for the HMRC to resort to collection from a licence holder (see OT45000+). As far as possible therefore determinations are based on information provided in response to data-holder notices issued in accordance with FA2011\Sch23 so that they are reasonable in amount and capable of justification.
The absence of a UK address is no bar to the issue of a notice of determination since a notice may be validly served by post at a foreign address - see FA1998\Sch18\para 36(4) and TMA70\S115.


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Priceline books a deal with TripAdvisor
Priceline's deal will make it easier for TripAdvisor users to instantly book hotel rooms. Fred Katayama reports.
A new deal with online travel agency Priceline making it easier for TripAdvisor users to book hotel rooms. Instead of sending those searching for hotel rooms to Priceline's Booking.com site as it had in the past, TripAdvisor users can now stay on TripAdvisor.com and instantly book rooms from Booking.com's listings. News of the deal sending the stock of the travel review site up. But Priceline's shares fell. TripAdvisor kicked off the instant booking feature a year ago to boost revenue. But Priceline didn't join at that time. It was afraid of beefing up a rival. But that changed after Marriott listed its hotels on TripAdvisor's platform this summer. Priceline and TripAdvisor did not say how they will share revenue from the deal. The partnership will in time likely include Priceline's other websites, priceline.com and agoda.com.


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Quilt As You Go method using embroidery machine with batting as stabilizer
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Monet-style quilting with machine embroidery lillies
Cup 'o Java wall hanging (I believe this belongs in my kitchen!)
Eighteen little monkeys jumping on the bed!
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I love how personalized these are!
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